Kenza held her breath as the statue completed its transformation, crouched and pressed up behind the nearest weapon rack so that only a sliver of her face was peeking around the corner. [i]Gargoyles?[/i] she wondered, immediately recognizing the stone-like creatures. [i]Impossible! They're just legends and folklore![/i] But the unmistakably stone-skinned creatures gathering around their leader were the living portrait of what gargoyles of myth and stone depiction looked like, and Kenza couldn't shrug the idea off after everything that had happened so far.

[i]Did sticking my hand into the statue's mouth trigger its transformation from stone?[/i] Kenza wondered, her lungs tight in her chest as she watched the creatures flap their wings and take flight around the original gargoyle. When the creatures started speaking, however, Kenza was shocked to hear that she could understand the monster's words. [i]Human speech? But the second half of it...[/i] her thoughts trailed off but she continued staying still, acutely aware of the fact that the horde and its leader hadn't noticed her yet. 

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