The forboding feeling of the room felt as though it would steal away the monk's very breath as his eyes swept over the grim scene once more

A voice from behind him called out, barely audible above the roaring of the wind and flames. However, Dimitri understood the language perfectly which helped to calm the startled feeling that had swept over him at the sound of the new voice. He wondered if this new comer was a local resident but once it registered that the man had said he was lost Dimitri sighed in frustration to himself.

"No! Unfotunately I have no idea where you are friend. But my best guess would be that you're some few dozen yards away from my current location. As for me?" he scratched his head then continued, "well I actually had considered myself dead for a while...Or at least completley intoxicated" he called to the stranger looking over his shoulder and raising a hand to shield his eyes from the relentless snow "A potent new brew I had just finished drinking you see...riding on the back of my Winddancer...then blackness"

He backed up cautiously towards the voice, hesitant to turn his back on the grim alter. Everything back there was dead he realized after a moment though. [i][b]'Pretty sure they wont be stabbing me in the back any time soon'[/b][/i] he thought to himself as he swung around to face the stranger. 

"There's a roaring fire back there, but sir I can not ignore this terrible feeling that's polluting the very air of this place so I think that I would much prefer to find a different fire to warm up at." He commented tossing a thumb over his shoulder. He stumbled a bit as he slowly moved towards the other man, or thing, whatever it was. Finer details were still a masked silhouette against the heavy snowfall.

"Say stranger, you're not planning to murder me or anything are you? I ask this becasue there are still so many more recipes for me to discover in my never ending quest for booze and I'd prefer to be alive long enough to find them!"
He paused a safe distance away from the man, sighing with relief as the gaunt figure became more clear. "Well at least your not some gnarled creature of sorts in this strange world, with a gimpy leg the size of a tree trunk and an arm which is just barely long enough to poke your nose!" he added with a smile 
"I guess that's a good start wouldn't you say?"