Hall
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A silent door yawns from the garden arcades; the hero crosses the threshold onto shining flagstones, pulse hammering at dragon smell. A scaled dragon curled like a barricade around the far staircase.
The cloak becomes a sheet of night; the hero clings to walls, breath measured like tumbler dice.
Steam scuds across the floor: the path upward lies over one scaly tail of a giant dragon, yet the beast does not seem to pay attention—step lightly around a talon or march ahead and face the dragon head on?