Light it up

When her sister questioned why the ground was different, she lifted her head and looked a little closer. "Seem's t'be pretty solid close to th' spikes, but looser in between 'em..." That was weird wasn't it? If the stones came up out of the ground recently, then wouldn't the soil around their bases be loose?

Another gust of wind whipped across the prominence and Gilda could have sworn she'd almost... heard something? Was it words? "It almost sounds like that screamin' is comin from the faces carved up on th' spikes..." Surely it was just the way the wind moved between the openings in the spires? Surely...

"speech"