As you descend the stone steps into the shrine, the change in atmosphere is palpable. The braziers sit cold at the entrance to a dark chamber filled with the chill of death, a strange sickly green mist clings to the floor in patches.
//Go CSI Daunton!//
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Mikara slowly emerges from unconsciousness, as her first cogent thoughts take form she tries to lift her hand to feel what must be a huge lump on the back of her head, but stops short, realising that her wrists are tied, very tightly!
"
Ah, she's awake m'lord... Ooo I can't wait, I is goin to be soooooo beautiful."
The woman's voice brings a rush of memories to the captured girl, she remembers the cavern, the sudden discovery, because she had let her guard down... Because the sight of that woman had made her gawp. Slowly, Mikara opened her eyes; there was no pain for the room is dimly lit. She looks up, trying to find the origin of the voice.
Standing a short distance away the young woman stands beside a short hooded figure. Although she could see nothing of the face hidden within the hood, Mikara could feel it's gaze upon her. The feeling was eerily similar to the sensation of the sinister presences she had felt within the portal.
"
Who are you, and why are you in my domain?"
The voice that issues forth from the hooded figure coils itself around Mikara's mind, it is seductive and powerful, each syllable carries a thousand promises within it. This voice commands absolute compliance, she cannot help but answer truthfully...