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Another step, and another, straight towards where the wall should be, and it wasn't there. This was very curious indeed. After about 12-15 steps, something shown faintly in the lamp light. It was about four feet high, and looked like a wall with a small basin between the sides. The basin was filled with a liquid that most certainly was not water, for ti was black and shinny. It also looked like it had purple sparkly flecks in it. Les reached out to touch it, mesmerized by it's color and brilliance in the firelight. The liquid was warm to the touch, and dripped like water through her fingers. Les started to wish she had her other hand free, and better lighting to examine it closer. Instinctively she set her lantern down in the stream of black water. As soon as the lantern touched the black water. As soon as the lantern touched it though; the water began to creep up the sides of the device as if it were alive. Les watched dumbfounded as the black water crept up and towards the fire. It crept as if it were drawn to the source of light. As soon as the black reached that height instead of snuffing out the flame, the black water ignited and subsided from the lantern. suddenly the whole basin was aflame.