The script was an antique form, even for Lunarian, The facts of the matter were plain for anyone who could read them. Well, there was only one person who could actually read them, but that was beside the point.
"Souichiro Tomoe, what is your daughter about to unleash?"
Professor Tomoe reached the top of the seemingly-endless stair well behind his daughter. For a moment, he held onto an ornate pillar as he gasped for breath. He glanced frantically around the room for little Hotaru, and...
Wait a minute. Top of the stairs? But they'd been descending!
Even more worried now, he took a moment to examine this impossible room. Vast and high-ceilinged, it soared above him. A vaulted colonnade ran around three sides of the room, with the fourth wall open to the majestic view of the Himalayas. Apparently, they'd reached the top of the mountain by using the stairs down.
In the center of this space was a huge golden statue of a horse, chained to the floor by a collar and chain of steel.
Tomoe walked over to Hotaru and put a hand on her shoulder. She glanced up at her Poppa and then returned her gaze to the golden stallion. The voice of the wind seemed to whisper to them.
He studied the statue that so fascinated his daughter. The beast depicted was not actually a horse, but more a combination between a horse and an oriental dragon. A pair of black tendrils drooped from the sides of its mouth, and a pair of dark bronze horns swept back from the top of its head. The mane and tail were both black, and the hooves matched the horns. The golden scales covering the creature were edged in red, giving it an fiery look. The head was wider and much larger than a horse's with the eyes set more forward, and the torso was wider as well. As muscular as the thing appeared, it looked able to make a standing jump over one of the mountains visible through the open wall. The professor remembered his undergraduate Comparative Religion class well enough to assign a name to the represented creature: a ki-rin, a dragon-horse which punished the wicked and protected the pure, a symbol of peace and serenity.
Professor Tomoe's grip on his daughter's shoulder tightened as the "statue" raised its head to look at them.
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