>Could examining the patterns and suchlike on the outside of the pillar help us work out where to make such a gap?
>If so, do so.
>It may not hurt, though you would still need to define what sort of gap you intend to make.
>You examine the patterns a little more closely. The hand patterns stand out clearly now, some grasping toward the heavens or the earth and some reaching outward. Other shapes are harder to discern any meaning or form to from. Many seem to almost resemble something, but terribly distorted. One, for instance, you could almost see as a yin and yang symbol, if said symbol were made of taffy and stretched into a hook-like shape. As it stands, you can't be sure how many of them are actually a distorted shape, and how many of them are just patterns your mind is trying to put to them to make sense of things. More maddeningly, you are also certain all these shapes should not be able to be placed together like this in a mosaic, but you cannot find where the tiles would distort to allow it. Are some of them imperceptibly larger or smaller than others? You cannot tell. Regardless, in the surface alone, there's definitely several good candidates for distinguishing the borders needed to make a gap.
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