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You peek around the frame, looking at the dark portal on the floor, wondering...
You step around and crouch, laying your hand down on the floor for where the latch should be. It's unnaturally cold where the shadow lies, but feeling around, you actually do touch what feels like a latch, thought the absolute darkness of the shadow prevents you from seeing it. When you pull... The door opens!
You fling it open, and look down inside, expecting to find a staircase or to be peering in from the ceiling of an adjacent chamber. Neither is the case, in fact, and mind-bendingly the floor of the room on the other side of the shadow door is even with it, on a perpendicular axis with the room you are in. Gazing through, you see a statue of the <span class="mu-s">Goddess Hylia</span>, holding what looks like another one of the hand mirrors but red, placed on a raised dais in the middle of a dome-shaped chamber with four evenly placed columns surrounding her. There are white paper lanterns hanging from sconces, illuminating the area well.
You decide to climb down into the room, expecting to fall, but gravity shifts across the threshold - when you let yourself down through the portal in the floor of the octagonal room, you find yourself laying on your side on the ground in this shrine... Nevertheless, you get up to your feet and dust off You glance back through the door, and find yourself looking directly at the mosaic on the ceiling of the room beyond.
You turn back, though, focusing your attention on your new surroundings. The dome-shaped shrine has a diameter of fifteen yards, and a height of the same in its center, with no visible exits. The columns are an even distance from the edge of the floor and the central statue, all of them being just a yard in width. You approach the <span class="mu-s">Hylia</span> statue to analyze it more closely, getting a better look at the implement in her hand. It is indeed shaped like the hand mirrors from before, but with a few key differences. Firstly, instead of a reflective mirror inside the eye, it has a glass lens. Secondly, instead of silver, the metal this object was crafted from has a polished, violet finish, the three spike-shaped lashes on top are scarlet, and the interior of the lens has a scarlet, vertical 'pupil' inside, similar to that of a cat... And it's moving across the surface of the glass to stay trained on you. You sense immediately that it is humming with potent magic...
<span class="mu-s">What will you do now?</span>
>This is a remarkable Artifact, one of the great Sheikah treasures, claim it and leave the way you came to present to the Elders, along with all you have seen.
>This is a remarkable Artifact, one of the great Sheikah treasures, claim it, but continue exploring the Temple. Perhaps with this tool you will stand a chance against Verak and his minions...
>The magic of this thing intimidates you, and you fear it may be what Verak is seeking, so you will return to the catacombs and forget you were here.
>Write-in
