I roll occasionally to see how well things will end up for the main character, so i'm not just pulling things out of thin air.
Luna shivered, the warmth of the ground compared to the bitter cold of the wind was a harsh change in such a small distance. She had walked out on one of the wider platforms that lead to another pillar. For some odd reason she couldn't quite discern, the wind had started up after she had stepped only a couple steps upon this platform.
She carefully walked further up the platform, the wind seemed to buffet her more, but it was hardly strong enough to push her off. Luna crinkled her nose at a stench that she smelled, it was similar to rotting flesh, but it was as if that which was rotting had always been rotting, and had thus gone beyond normal sensations of rottenness. The stench swam in the air, slightly visible. It looked like green and blue spirals that swam through the air, when she breathed in they went into her mouth and nose.
Luna, being rather smart, and knowing that inhaling unknown fumes is the quickest way to get a first class ticket to Saint Mungos, did the smart thing and held her breath as she rushed past the noxious fumes that stinged her eyes. Alas she had to keep them open as not to take a positively unhealthy drop off the edge.
Once Luna saw that she was out of the possibly toxic vapor she took in a deep breath and turned her head to glance at the odd spirals.
Luna gasped, for the spirals seemed to be grouping together like wet sand. More seemed to be floating to it from some location far off in the unknown and it was forming a vaguely humanoid shape.
Luna, of course, did the smart thing and turned tail and ran away from the thing that was forming behind her.
Luna arrived, somewhat out of breath, at the hexagonal pillar the platform had been leading to. Looking behind her, Luna saw a humanoid shape that had 6 thin long arms that seemed to move of their own accord. The creature, (for could it be called anything more complimentary than creature?), seemed to be made out of something less viscous than mud, it was colored blue and green, but some areas the colors mixed and become a dull brown that blended well with the dark pillars that stood, imposing, behind it. Small spiral fumes wisped off of it occasionally, but they were quickly sucked back into it's mass. The monstrosity did not appear to have other features related to humans besides it's humanoid appearance and the rough shape of it's hands.
The creature squelched on the ground as it moved closer to Luna, Luna could see it had eaten away at the platform some as it moved along.
Gritting her teeth, Luna pointed her wand at the creature that moved oh-so-slowly up the platform towards her, willing to try to reason with it from a safe distance, she raised her voice and asked the creature a question,, "Mister, or Miss, or Other, what do you want?"
The odd slime kept moving up the platform, ignoring her question.
Luna frowned, waving her wand she incanted "Saeclium".
The dissolving spell shot out of her wand at the creature, the blue light hit the creature, spreading over the surface of the monster it crackled like electricity. The slime dissolved into hundreds, if not thousands, of green and blue spirals that floated away in the cold wind.
Luna incanted another spell, "Ventus", a gust of wind shot out of Luna's wand, sending any stray fumes away from her.
Luna sighed out a long breathe, for that encounter had not been fun.
Luna glanced at the next shorter path that she had chosen, and started onwards, little did she know the spirals slowly melded back together far behind her...