As the guard closest to you vanishes behind a door, you ascend the stairs to your left. A second flight of narrow steps brings you to a small shrine, warmly lit with candles. The light cast from the shrine reveals another staircase leading up to this second floor that you were previously unaware of. At that moment, you realize it is not the light from the shrine illuminating the second set of stairs, but the torch of a patrolling guardsman. "Halt!" he shouts, as he reaches for his sword. Before he is able to draw his weapon from its scabbard, you pummel him unconscious.