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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 6769375" data-attributes="member: 6777052">Rylnethaz mused for a moment. He quite liked making up riddles but he wasn't so sure that the others did, so he made a suggestion to give them all some wriggle room. "As you are anxious to be off, O Worthy Sphynx, to save time, would it be acceptable if we each made up one couplet of a larger riddle?"The sphynx looked askance at this. It suspected Rylnethaz was trying to short-change it and thrashed its tail, as cats do when they are annoyed. "This is rather irregular. Oh, very well, but it will have to be good. I've waited about five thousand years for you people to get here, you know. Let's see now, you must give me four heroic couplets, each a complete clue to the riddle, and to make it more difficult they must be in iambic tetrameters so that each line has four feet, like me."Rylnethaz looked at the others and they looked at him. "Got any idea what he's talking about?" asked Fingers. BoldItalic muttered something about "There's never a bard about when you need one." After a while, though, and after much head-scratching, they came up with a suitable riddle which Clotbert orated in a solemn voice.The sphinx listened politely, then considered. Its tail went up, then down, then up again as it worked through the lines in its mind. "That's quite good," it said eventually. "The pun on son is fun but not overdone. Very well, you have all passed the test. You may use the Infinite Staircase freely. Now, if you will excuse me, I really must fly."So saying, the sphinx bounded through the archway at the back of the room and disappeared up the staircase. Rather surprisingly, its reflection leapt out of the mirror and followed it."I wasn't expecting that," confessed BoldItalic."Sphinxes always go around in pairs," explained Clotbert. "They were created to guard temple gateways in ancient Er.""Er, what?" asked Fingers."No, Er was a city in Mesopantamia. It was destroyed a long time ago and buried by the sands of the desert. I suppose some of the sphinxes escaped when their gateways fell into ruins. I'm glad we met one."But Fingers wasn't really listening to Clotbert. "Give us a hand with this mirror," he said.</blockquote>

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