Rooms

  The acrid smell of smoke still lingers within this single dome-shaped

room, dark and shadowed as the series of braziers that once lay evenly

spaced to provide light, have long been extinguished and remain dark in the

tragic aftermath.  Much of the room is unrecognizable from its former self,

the walls scorched from the licking flames and the contents within burnt

away altogether.  



Little is left within the temple that lay filled with charred ash, formed

into small mounds or has been scattered from the fire's dance.  Half buried

and blackened from fire and soot, two corners of a plaque that has fallen

from its place of prominence sticks out and is visible, much of the carved

lettering melted away from the intense heat.  The only other item that seems

to have survived the devastating inferno is the statue of Kwainin, the gray

stoned structure still standing upright at the rooms center though a massive

crack runs jagged down through the center, appearing to split the God in

half.  One side of statue is thoroughly burned, the stone blistered and

blackened while the other side stands miraculously untouched.