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John sighs and decides to risk stepping onto the plate, seeing it as the only way forward. John slowly steps on the plate and waits for something to happen.
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the statue animates, seizing him by the neck suddenly and without warning but just holding him in place, not actually applying pressure before a female voice like that of his mother's says into his mind "prepare yourself child. for one lie will mean your head will roll. now speak your name"