• You can’t go in there! Why, no one enters the Forbidden Zone and returns to tell the tale!
• You can’t go in there! Why, no one goes past the Silent Sentinels without express permission from the Guardian Herself!
• You can’t go in there! Why, such a thing has not been done by someone of ungentle blood in seventeen generations, since before the Moon was veiled!
• You can’t go in there! Why, the Gleaned-Over Way is bestrewn with the bones of those braver and stronger than you who tried to force their way through the Unseelie Gate!
• You can’t go in there! Why, the Eyeless Queen will have your heart and tongue ripped out by the roots for your defiance!
• You can’t go in there! Why, the king himself has not entered that chamber since the Weir-Night!
• You can’t go in there! Why, you haven’t been given the name to speak at the Wordless Gate!
• You can’t go in there! Why, no one enters the Ring of Containment if they value their lives!
• You can’t go in there! Why, the Council itself has forbidden to even speak of it!
• You can’t go in there! Why, the Bridgekeeper has not found a worthy petitioner in all the days of my memory, and scatters the limbs of the hopeful at his feet!
• You can’t go in there! Why, the Elders would have my head if they knew you’d even gotten through Hallway 9!
• You can’t go in there! Why, I have guarded this gate worthily since the task was laid upon me by the Defenders of the Cities of the Plain, and I have no intention of yielding today, sir!
• You can’t go in there! Why, the legends tell of a horrible monster that dwells just beyond these walls, waiting to devour any foolish citizen brave or foolhardy enough to venture outside alone, and certainly isn’t the City Fathers in disguise trying to keep the populace afraid, compliant, and cut off from the rest of the world!