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With this final area illuminated, however dimly, you decide it is safe to but your torch away for now. You plunge it into a small pile of sand on the ground next to the wall, and step on it twice to help kill the flame, then tuck it into the side of your pack for quick access. You take a deep breath, and drop to a crouch. Before you can learn any more of your history, or comb the chests in this room, you have to know what else is lurking in this, the most sacred of the catacomb's chambers.
Your steps are practically undetectable, and you make sure to control your breathing carefully, just as your mother taught you. You hold your katana with both hands, keeping it pointed ahead of you.
Entering the right side burial den, you see that the ceiling goes even higher, and there are ladders with scaffolding to access different levels along the wall, which again features some human bones, but is largely just a tremendous grid of vertically arranged burial plots. The <span class="mu-s">Sheikah</span> tradition dictates that the bones of those slain in battle are separated and used to festoon the chambers as you have seen throughout, supposedly so they cannot be reanimated by ill-intentioned <span class="mu-s">wizards</span> and made to use their battle prowess for wicked ends. All others, however, are mummified according to the old rites, placed in bamboo caskets, and slid into slots along these very walls.
You continue on, to the farther burial den opposite where you entered. A ways off you see the source of the sound... A low, quadrupedal animal of some sort. It's steps sound hollow and hard, and you hear claws tacking against the stone. You skulk closer still, unseen by the crude beast, and are able to identify it. The skeletal, canid creature must be a <span class="mu-s">Stalhound</span>, another spirit of the restless dead, resembling a misshapen dog stripped of all flesh, almost larger than you are.
<span class="mu-s">Choose one of the following:</span>
>Melee attack (katana) [Strength+Melee]
>Ranged attack (Deku Nut) [Dexterity+Ranged]
>Technique: Heavy Slash (katana) [Strength+Melee]
>Sneak away [N/A]
