“The long hall ascends like a wide staircase lined with pillars and terminates at a great Celestial Door made of opaque green glass and inlaid with wrought mithral. The walls are expertly crafted but plain, and the ceiling is carved in intricate pictograms and Celestial script. At the top of the hall, before the great door, a large starfish-shaped creature with five spindly metal legs lay inert. Tarnished metallic parts and gears are scattered around the chamber.”