The Black Citadel

You grab a burning candle and make your way along the dark corridor. After only some metres, the corridor leads to an equally dark room. You find some unlit torches in brackets on the walls of the room that you light with the candle you have. The torches flare up and you notice, dominating the room in the centre, is a remarkable stone statue of a dark one with one of its bony looking hands outstretched and pointing. Apart from the statue, there are some paintings on the wall of Wiculoth, of extraordinary battle scenes, and of impressive but unfamiliar looking creatures. The floor of the room is a patchwork of large blood red tiles. There are no exits leading from the room.

Suddenly, to your distress, the dark one you saw in the meeting hall comes striding into the room. The dark one towers over your short orc frame. It hisses and rasps at you as to why your it an off-limits area of the citadel.

How should you respond?