At the end of the staircase leading to the upper level of the Observatory, the door stood quietly in front of Gawain and his party. The door, cast from some unknown alloy, showed peeling layers of its past coating — inevitable signs of aging silently telling witnesses about the changes of the past seven centuries.
"Simply touching the door will activate an authentication system," Sir Philip said nearby, "Even if the authentication fails, no alarms or security apparatus will be triggered; the door will merely remain locked. We haven't found where its power source is, likely the whole system is on the other side of the door. To be cautious, we refrained from further provoking this thing."
