Note: For those unfamiliar with Dark Sun, psionics are called the Will for wild talents and the Way for trained psionicists.
The images of Vashti began swaying and started singing in an unknown language. When their brief song was done, the images shattered into tiny shards of glass. After a few seconds, the shards dissipated into black smoke and vanished.
The group stood, dumbfounded, for several seconds. Vashti stepped away from the center of the circular room. The group didn't know what to make of the strange occurrence. Shade stepped into the center of the room and the images became him and repeated their strange song. No one had a way of translating the strange words, so the group moved on.
In another room in the same building, the group found the remains of wooden frames. What the wall hanging frames one held was absent. On the wall was written something in dark paint. Abilkisu could read it, as it was in Urikite and Abilkisu broke Urikite law and learned to read. He said the graffiti said something profane about a queen. The group thought it might possibly be about the queen of this former city.
The next room was filled with smashed ceramic shards and part of the room had collapsed. Shade turned to leave, but Vashti wanted to take a look. She carefully dug through the ceramic shards and found a ceramic flower painted in realistic colors and glazed. She thought it was strange that the flower was on a stick and not a cactus.
Kalino explained that sometimes rich nobles would throw flowers on sticks into the arena at their favorite gladiators. Vashti asked if the stick flowers could be eaten and Kalino didn't think so. Vashti said that money would be better and Kalino said that they occasionally threw that too.
The last door in the main hall opened into a room filled with smashed statues of people. The artistic style was very uniform, with standard poses. Most of the intact faces were of people from this city, with the strange lines around their eyes. The group wondered if the lines were makeup, as they previously thought, or if the people naturally had black lines around their eyes.
Shade checked the last room and inside were more smashed sculptures, but these seemed to be non-humanoid in shape. In the center of the room stood a black skeleton holding an obsidian sword, which had a solid obsidian blade. At the skeleton's feet were two, long dead, humans. The skeleton looked at Shade and Shade could see two small pinpricks of violet light in its eyes.
