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Close to the Spire is the Infinite Path. It is a series of twisted hallways that split into other hallways, seemingly splitting into infinity. The navigation through these paths is confusing, each one merges and mixes into another without any definable pattern.

At some point doors begin to clutter and form all at once, of various frames, shapes, sizes. Some have gold frames while others can barely fit a single figure crouching. Beyond the doors are long paths that simply lead to dead ends, just a barricade where nothing exists. Occasionally a path will descend into stairs, stairs that wind lower and lower, yielding doors that are barricaded shut. To the side are paintings, depictions of humanoid figures wielding weapons fighting a giant fog beast with terrible black horns.

*ignore this post, cutting interactions into several pieces*

[Eir entering]

...okay, this is SO NOT the shrine. Where the heck has he wandered to?

It was dark in here. And there's less...fog then it was outside.
"Hello? Anybody there?"

No response. Although he managed to get an echo of his own voice.

Should I try going inside a bit more?

Inside the hallway is a series of twisted hallways that split into other hallways, seemingly splitting into infinity.

Eir wasted about few hours wandering around, making notes of the backtrack should he get lost...which is highly possible. Or have he lost now?

*At some point doors begin to clutter and form all at once, of various frames, shapes, sizes. Some have gold frames while others can barely fit a single figure crouching.

Eir rubbed his shadowy hand to the door with gold frames. The texture from the frame is a bit rough, but the feel of the touch itself was pleasingly smooth, not like the rough Spires outside...

[[ Entering ]]

While wandering the Spire's base, he found himself down a winding pathway that seemed to lead to some sort of hallway. Continuing down the way, it would appear that the hallway led to various other corridors that led further into others. This was nonsense and he felt that if he turned back, it would be easy to, but if he went further, he'd get lost just as easy. Yet his curiosity got the better of him. Continuing in a straight line, he kept his hand against the right wall, allowing his fingers to lightly glide along the wall before reaching what appeared to be a series of golden doors. Curiosity increasing, he entered the first that he could fit into. Thought it was by crouching.

A much larger door stood beside him. Turning, he noticed that it had similar golden trims along it's frame, decorated of monsters and abominations of sorts but not in the negative light. It glorified them. . By the sheer size of it, he could almost swear that it was as big as the Goddesses' door. Looking over his shoulder he saw a similar height door, but this one was more oblonged. Turning again, he looked down the hallwa-... wait a moment. Aeru glanced along the floor, looking as the ground met the walls that held the doors and then up to the infinite darkness where the ceiling once was.

No. he thought. The hallway was too big, the doors were too big, the ceiling is out of sight and so was the end of the hallway.

"WHY AM I SMALL!?"

His fingers seem to lengthen and thin as he pulls them, until eventually they slide out from the door. Unfortunately, they do not revert back to their original form, leaving him with one extremely long, spindly hand.

[enter]

Somehow, Rydek had found himself in a strange hallway of sorts. It seemed to be endless, from what he could see. The paintings caught his attention.

Moving closer to the paintings, he reached out and touched one.

A deep chill...
Of understanding?

That he was lonely. Alone.
That he was once part of that darkness. Nothing.

After admiring the unfamiliar night sky, Eir inches his way back to the gold-rimmed door. He wanted to see more of this place...

But not before burning that scenery of unfamiliar sky clad in azure-purple deep in his 'heart'. He stopped at the door and admired the view, trembling from both awe and fear at the same time.