Deeper Underdark

She looks at Grin with a slight frown, and with a barely perceptible swish of her tail, Grin's illusions are immediately dispelled. She then smiles at Ealdwig's awkwardness, before looking you all over.

She moves around you, making a big circle around your group. She positively purrs, "I am so glad to finally have visitors after all this time. Would you like to play a little game with me? Answer my riddles and I will let you pass through. Fail to answer, and you will have to leave the way you came. Do not violate my hospitality." She then smiles a horrible smile that extends way farther than you would think it should on her otherwise human-looking face, revealing rows of razor-sharp teeth. "The kobolds know to avoid me now, so it's been quite a while since I have had a good meal. Fortunately for you, I am not yet famished."

"You haven't chosen poorly. Yet.

"Before we start, the nervous one said you were helping the young lady over here get home." She turns her head towards Yoci and says, "And where would that be?"

Yoci, totally unprepared to be singled out by the sphinx, freezes for a moment. She then stammers out, "B-B-Brahdhavehl," without thinking.

"Ah, I have heard of that one. Yes, passing through here will allow you to get there without tangling with the kobolds." Turning back to look at Stee, "So, that part was not a wrong choice. Let's get things started with the first riddle:

"What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?"

The corner of her mouth curls in a slight smile, pleased that you guessed so quickly.

"Very good. But I have a feeling you have heard that one before. Let's try another one.

What has rivers, but no water flows; has forests, but nothing grows?
What has mountains that have no height; has cities that have no light?"

She shows a look of slight surprise, and responds, "Excellent! Such a quick response with the correct answer! One more and then you can go. Answer correctly, and you can go forward. Answer incorrectly, and you leave the way you came.

What appears bright on every face, and can vanish quickly leaving only a trace?
What lights up eyes, and can be born in joy or surprise?"