[center][h1][color=gold]Leannah[/color][/h1][/center]

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Interesting...but all the same Leannah did not want to risk diving into a pool full of eel-like fish. Especially when in the temple of a perhaps maddened trickster God of Knowledge who liked to see how far people would go to learn knowledge. Then again divinity was its own kind of perspective, perhaps, but was a perspective she didn't have all the same. She was a mortal like the others, and was most unlike the cute sun goddess or peculiar goddess who brought them into this world in that regard. Still, the statue with the flowing dress which turned to water...the one back in the library with the knowing look to boot...she suspected this was who had brought them here. The one she'd placed the stone necklace on, which was taken from the hooded figure. It was another working theory at least, so she was open to being proven wrong or confirmed right if the right information came along. 

Regardless, after looking at both rooms she felt she had some kind of plan. If this was a temple to a deity of knowledge, then she could at least try to be clever! Not the stupid kind of 'clever' that got you killed, she hoped, but maybe enough to get things done in a less 'I am going to die' kind of fashion. That or she would eliminate approaches by the process of elimination, and hopefully not blow up the room or herself or the like somehow. 

With this in mind the catgirl first returned to the pool, and opened up her right hand as she aimed her palm out at whatever was glinting off of her light. That cage and whatever was in within it at the bottom of the pool would be what she was aiming for. She then began to focus on it, beginning to channel mana again and let it flow like a gentle river at first. Good. That was step one. She then put two fingers of her other hand to her temple, and using the hand with an open palm pointed out at where the cage and contents were in the pool she seriously focused/concentrated her efforts and mana like she was some superpowered person using telekinesis. She used the strong mental image and imagination of using telekinesis to 'grab' onto the cage and contents, in other words, as the 'form' to channel the use of her mana into. Ah. [b]In other words, she was using a strong mental image to shape the use of her mana to cast a telekinesis spell to try to grab onto the cage and contents to lift them out of the pool.[/b] Simply using magic to try to use telekinesis in a sense, really. She would put all of her focus and effort and strength into the effort, as well as exerting as much self-control and precision and care as she could muster to keep track of things and make sure she didn't lose control. 

If these efforts bore fruit, and she managed to lift the cage and its contents out of the water and over near herself, then it would warrant a carefully investigation of the cage and contents that would now be on dry (enough) land and out of the water. She'd hopefully be able to find something good, if anything good was in there, and if she had to bust open the cage somehow she'd have to try that if it wasn't already broken

If what she tried didn't work or felt any bit along the way like it threatened danger or losing control, she'd stop herself and stop trying altogether. Better than wasting her time trying to kill herself or do something worse. 

Once she was done with the stuff at the pool, successful or not, she would ultimately return back up to the hallway she'd just scouted. Here she would simply speak aloud where the carving was and say [color=gold]"A book!"[/color] aloud to the carving/pillar...and if speaking the answer didn't work she had another idea. In such a case she'd backtrack to the library she was formerly trapped in, seeing if she could grab some intact-enough book to bring back to the carving and see if there was any place to put it or such to trigger some kind of opening mechanism. In such a case it would be worth a shot. 

And if a book wasn't the answer, she'd have to go back to the drawing board really fast and would likely next trying saying [color=gold]"A library!"[/color] and then [color=gold]"A baby!"[/color] aloud to the carving/pillar. She wasn't as sure of those two, but if the first answer failed it was worth trying too. 

Still, through everything she was going to keep a careful eye and ear and so forth out for trouble. Creepy old temples were not known in any Earth media for being safe or free of worse traps and such.