>>6119241You slowly help Soralisa touch the floor and she gasps, her hand reaching for the wall.
You are already starting to feel the heat rising from all around you.
“Are you sure this place is safe?”
“Perfectly so!” She shouts over the rising hum. “Isn’t it wondrous? Candeloro’s own hand placed each of these tassels here, creating this channel.” So… the spiral staircases descend hugging this circular hole throughout the entirety of the Temple. That’s where the hum comes from, this chamber.
But it’s empty. You’d expect to see more, some kind of… fire perhaps.
“Where is this light coming from?”
“The inner sanctum above!” Soralisa explains with a huge grin on her lips. “The light from the Temple’s core gets scattered and refracted, and it then feeds back into the core, in an endless cycle that remains perfectly in balance… until the Priests tilt the scales upward, you see. These can move.” She taps with her glove over the tassels.
“And these were made by Saint Bragia’s companion…” you hold onto your Cameo. Soralisa nods, ecstatic.
“Yes! This is something that was made thanks to his genius, so long ago! See how the tassels all follow a certain inclination? This way the brightness of the light gets refracted upwards to the core and nothing happens. In fact, ever since we have come here we have perhaps started to disturb the reaction a bit…”
[cont.]
