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Jordan landed and padded behind Avery. The ground was now...plush carpet? They must be on the bottom floor.

"Why have we stopped? Is there something wrong?" Spencer asked.


"If there is any code that needs cracking, I could probably solve it" Christopher said. He was good at that kind of stuff.

((are they still upside down and requiring the power of the manipulators?))

Avery shook her head no.

"We just went up one flight of stairs to get to the staircase behind these doors, so that we can get to the bottom which is three flights down. ..only...the door is locked. We need someone with a silver Ira I think...there's a dot on the door on the map in that color anyway."
Avery huffed. She remembered life before this school year. She certainly hadn't spoken anywhere near this much.

(Bedtime for me children, I need my sleeps.)
Avery quirked an eyebrow.
She had no idea. She just saw the dot on the map.
In response she just shrugged.

Jordan closed her left eye and peered into the left keyhole but saw only darkness. "I'll give it a shot," she said. She pressed her hand over the opening and felt the darkness inside. "If I do this...and this..." she had to create little solid bars that would press buttons inside the door, all the way up to the top. There was a small clicking sound as she pressed each one. She pushed on the door, but nothing happened. "I think," she said, looking up, "We have to unlock both doors." She looked over at the right side keyhole, then back at her right hand on the lock. Oh great... the lock was set up so that id she moved her hand it would reset. "Ah..." she turned so her back was to the door and reached awkwardly for the other keyhole.

Jordan let her left hand fall. "Yeah. Thanks." She took her hand off the door and peered through as it swung inwards to reveal the room beyond. She covered her eyes at a sudden brightness.

The doors opened onto a massive room with pillars leading up to a ceiling high above their heads. There were walkways winding around the perimeter of the room at different levels. All the walls were shelves, and the shelves were filled with scrolls. Spiral staircases lead all the way to the very top floor, which was still a few stories from the ceiling. A grand staircase led down to the bottom floor below.

But all this was not the main feature of the room. Up on the ceiling was what looked like glass. And the whole ceiling was lit up, and sent beams of light all the way through the room. There was a pattern on the roof with all sorts of animals on it, each one a different color. There were silver and golden cats, ruby and sapphire martins, indigo wolves, and jade deer.

(( Geez, nice catch! I guess it was a tad obvious... let me tell you, I've got some diabolical ideas about that ceiling. Animals falling from the sky, anyone? ))

In the center of the room on the bottom floor was a large tiled pattern that had a picture of the animals dancing around a circle in the center of the pattern. The animals seemed to move with the light that glinted off of the ceiling.