human
Produce a short description of a foreboding scene inside of a medieval library with statues, tomes, and empty shelves.
assistant
Four unusual statues hold up the ceiling of this fairly small room, each face blackened and doglike, and covered by gilded mesh helms. A wide ironwood case holds a series of large, foreboding tomes, each lit by a single, off-colored gaethzen sphere. Empty shelves fill the rest of the space, awaiting their own uncommon tomes and careful readers.