The acolyte smirked and shook her head, leaning back against the temple's wall while she caught her breath back. "Yeah? Well they ain't just stories, Yerbol." she panted, pushing off the wall to head towards the opening he had found. They should make the most of the absence of any hungry animals before anything else (including the ice creatures) decided to have another go at making them dinner. She was surprised when he asked her to teach him how to do it. It was the last question she had expected to come from a Jedi, it made Aria chuckle. "I thought you your Masters believed Sith techniques were cruel and unnecessary?" she shot a question of her own back at him, a slight hint of humor creeping into her tone.

She skirted around the piles of debris as the Knight picked his way towards the statue, pausing at his shoulder as he began to read the inscriptions aloud. Aria's brow knitted into a frown, studying the three pathways first and then returning her gaze to the statue, she was trying to figure out how they all connected. 

"It probably is a trial." she agreed slowly, "Designed to test strength, resilience and loyalty or something like that." Aria shrugged. "The statue talks about the Path of Truth though, none of these three?" Perhaps there was a fourth hallway hidden somewhere? They likely had to prove they could handle the first three before the next step of the tests would reveal itself. 


Aria thought back to what she knew about how the Sith worked these kinds of trials on Korriban. "We could try splitting up again, but it might not work properly." she pondered out loud. "Either we just need to finish the tests and it won't matter, or they might have designed it that we both need to complete all of them before we can move on. Guess we won't know which till we try something." 

Brushing past Yerbol, she stepped forward into the rightmost archway. "I'll take Power, you take Vengeance, if we both make it out alive and in one piece we meet back and take the middle one together?" She wasn't sure what kind of challenges would be waiting in a hall marked for 'Redemption' (or what a REAL Sith would want with redemption in the first place!), but she was less prepared to go in there on her own  than either of the other archways. She straightened her back and sucked in a deep breath, heading forward into the darkness ahead of her. 

Aria moved forward a few paces and stopped to survey her surroundings. It was so dark in the tunnel she could hardly see anything, even the faint light from the previous chamber a few feet behind her didn't stretch far enough to be of any help. She would have to rely on her Force senses instead, reaching out she probed further in looking for any disturbances. Nothing had jumped out at her yet and she couldn't sense anything that was an imediate threat to indicate that they were going about the test wrong by separating again. 

Holding her breath, she listened for any exclamations from Yerbol to indicate whether he had come up short or had the same response as she had. If he had even left the central chamber yet, that is.