"Alright," Anna though to herself. "Here goes nothing." Anna stepped through the right door, hoping she'd made the correct decision. She considered tightly closing her eyes and holding her breath in fear, but she remembered all she'd been taught throughout the duration of the school year and thought better of it. After all, hadn't she just mentioned that the most important defense weapon was to be alert and aware and to assess and reassess the sutuation at hand? Riiight.

After she stepped through the door, Anna's eyes fell upon a sign hanging just before her. As she read it, a slight smile appeared on her face. Okay, at least she knew now that she'd chosen the correct door. That was a step in the right direction, no pun intended. Anna's smile faded as she walked forward and realized that the floor was starting to slope downward at angles she was unable to walk properly on. Sliding a bit, Anna found herself hanging on to the walls in hopes of staying up long enough to make it out of this dimly lit...poorly-floored....nasty-smelling area. Ewww, what was that smell? Anna wrinkled her nose, but otherwise did nothing. After all, with the condition the floor was in, Anna was really in no position to do much of anything. She'd just have to endure the stench.

Just when Anna thought she stood a chance of progressing without any other horrid situations occuring, she felt several balls of...something pelt her in the back and shoulders. Frowning, Anna edged away from the painful balls only to have more balls come down on her just as soon as she'd moved. Were these...gobstones? They were! Pushing her right hand off the wall, Anna grabbed her wand and made a sweeping, upward arc in the direction of the gobstones. With a sharp snap of her wrist, she called out a strong, "PROTEGO!" and focused on shielding herself from the painful gobstones. She watched as a shield formed around her, and she breathed a sigh of relief when she longer felt them pounding down on her. With determination, Anna moved forward, glad to be out of the rainfall of gobstones, yet fearing what lied ahead at the same time. In no time, Anna had reached yet another door. With her Shield Charm still surrounding her, Anna proceeded through the door.