Astral Odyssey: Dying Ember
Instead of forcing him to move on, she picked him up and man-handled him like she would do to a real glow stick.
The gold chair was really a throne. After the confirmation, she walked past it to inspect the wall behind. There was a drawing of a huge dragon with various unrecognisable creatures below it. Besides the familiar creatures that existed in legends, myths, and folktales, there were others that looked like random chimeras. Although they each looked mutated, they looked equally huge and majestic.
She followed the wall and found even more paintings.
The next painting was of the same dragon fighting the same phoenix, while all the other creatures watched on.