>Let's try that, then. Use our Sapphire Lotus to move the bar up, so that we can replace it behind us once inside and make it appear from the OUTSIDE like everything is normal. If we require it, shift our physical power back to magic before doing this.
>After raising the bar, gently open the door. Let's get a look at the inside before we decide to 'lock' ourselves inside it.
>As before, have Rin keep lookout.
>As you produce your baton, Rin stops you with a
Just a sec, mistress. The cat dashes forward and glances down both hallways, then checks the stairwell.
Still all good. That done, you attach your blue beam to the steel and hoist the thing back. You take it slowly, not wanting to make anymore noise than need be, but not too slowly, of course. The bar slides up without a hitch, and you take a careful look inside.
>The chamber is layed out very much the same as the one in the Dragon shrine, though the pillars supporting the roof are forged from iron rather than stone and seem thicker than the ones at the Wood temple. There is a great deal more obvious metal herein, though this is hardly a surprise. The altar supporting the flame itself appears to be made of silver, and the bowl containing the flame itself is gold. And the flame itself, just as Kiku said, burns black as night. The fire gives off no light, and the lights hanging from the ceiling are off. You'll have to provide your own light once the door is closed. Apart from the sound of the flame itself, the chamber is perfectly quiet.
>Still sensing and now seeing no one within, you quickly slide inside the door and carefully use your Sapphire light to lower the bar back into place, closing the door and letting the bar fall the rest of the way so as to avoid tearing the paper. With Rin on guard outside, you now appear to have free reign of the silent, darkened Chamber of the Sacred Flame, which burns with an unlight.
