Is it your wish that I take you through her house ?" "It is," I said.
"The goddess has commanded me to serve you in all things." He bowed, sardonically.

"Follow." Our search was short.

We stepped out into what for want of better words I can describe only as a central hall.

It was circular, and strewn with thick piled small rugs whose hues had been softened by the alchemy of time into exquisite, shadowy echoes of color.
The walls of this hall were of the same moonstone substance that had enclosed the chamber upon whose inner threshold we were.

They whirled straight up to the dome in a crystalline, cylindrical cone.