"I don't know," he admitted, frowning at the statues. "Though given that they were clearly put there by magic- it would have been impossible to carve one such statue in secret here, let alone three, even if one did have decent tools-, I don't doubt that there is a reason."

"What about them frightens you so, though? They're going to be troublesome to move to allow us to get out of the room, to be sure, but there's nothing particularly alarming about them."