68 The Nine Doors (2/2)
”Don't touch that! There's a massive force of decay at work here. Something ancient lies behind that door, the power of Time is strong enough to spin away your lifeforce and turn you to dust in an instant!”
Hastily, Lineir backed away quickly. While he wasn't going to touch it, the thought of him turning into a pile of dust flitted through his mind.
”Alright master, I'm going.”
He took one last look then continued to walk down the path. After an indeterminate amount of time in the darkness, another door came into view. It was similarly vast, rising far up like a gate to the Heavens... or Hells. The runes on this one were also much darker than the ones on the walls, but this time, they seemed blurry, and they faded in and out like Lineir's eyes had suddenly become unfocused. It was almost like they were not a fixed distance away, sometimes near, sometimes far. However, they were definitely not moving...
BOOOOM!!!
A deep grating crack shattered the eerie silence of Lineir's lonely steps.
RUUUUMBBBBLLEEEE!!
The entire structure began to shake and all of a sudden a fantastic show of lights illuminated the world as the runes on the temple came to life! The once sleeping purple runes suddenly flared up in response to the shaking and rippled as unknown impacts came from wide. As Lineir raised his astonished eye's, the impossibly high walls pulsed and purple light flashes reverberated throughout as the runes chained together and resisted the assault.
Ting! Ting! Ting!
Everywhere mystical lights exploded, and it was as if the room had suddenly been lit up by the bio-luminescent creatures of the deep. Only instead of living organisms, these were runes, dancing and cavorting in such a way that they may as well have been alive! Soon, the rumbling passed, and the deep grating which Lineir could feel even in his joints came to an end. Cautiously, Lineir swept the room, and discovered it changed! With the passage of whatever strange happening had caused the rumbling, the runes had ceased to pulse and ripple, but they had remained active and lit. Their bright light now illuminated far more of the room in fluorescent purple and Lineir could see the true vastness of the room. Suddenly, Lineir realized that the room was not a box as he had assumed, but actually more of a circle! Far off in the distance, he could see that all around him were those strange massive doors, a total of nine! High above, like sky to earth, untold amounts of runes flew across the ceiling no unlike clouds in the mortal realms. Slowly circling, Lineir wondered exactly what the purpose of this room was.