82. A Walk Through the Garden
Amy decides that a little fresh air would be a good change of pace. Maybe a stroll through the garden will clear her head and give her some new ideas on how to tackle this horrible mansion. She opens the glass door and walks outside.
She's greeted by a large number of statues, all of them amazingly lifelike. “It's interesting,” Amy thinks to herself, “That whoever bought these statues has such specific tastes. They're all very realistic. And all human forms. And... They're all nudes...” Amy starts to get a bad feeling. There's no diversity in these statues, no abstract forms, no stylized human figures. They're all incredibly realistic replicas of people.
But she soon realizes that they aren't all nude. The ones nearest the house are, but looking further out she sees a few with what look like shreds of shirts, pants, and underwear attached to them. “That's a weird statement to make...” Amy thinks to herself nervously. Off in the distance, she even thinks she sees some fully-clothed statues. All the clothes she sees are real cloth adorning statues of stone and marble and metal.
Amy decides to take a closer look at one of the statues near her. It's a young woman in what must have been a horribly awkward pose for the model to hold for the artist. Her face is a mask of terror. One foot is raised off its heel, as though she were about to try running away. The hands are thrown up in front of the statue's face, while the body is twisting, as though about to turn around. Amy thinks. “It's a hard pose to hold...” She then tries to duplicate it herself, “...But not very hard to move through. This is a pretty realistic action shot. Either the artist was very skilled, the model very flexible and balanced, or...”
Amy quickly surveys the other statues nearby and determines that all of them are in roughly similar poses, more like candid photographs of someone caught in a moment of surprise and horror than like a posed statue.
Recalling her Greek myths, Amy thinks to herself that it's generally not a great idea to hang around in places where there are a lot of lifelike human statues showing expressions of shock and terror. At least, not unless you have something reflective to defend yourself with.
What should Amy do?