| “ | The pool is to be used sparingly, to allow students to seek for truth within themselves. | ” |
The Hollow Place, also known as the Place of Reflection, is a secret room located in the Scholomance, with a pool filled with enchanted water.
Description[]
The Hollow Place is a room in the Scholomance that holds a pool with water that has been enchanted to show and let someone feel the evil and pain he/she has dealt others, whether or not intentional. It is said that if ones' evil deeds are grave enough, it may kill the person, or at least drive this person into killing oneself. It is said that even looking at ones' reflection on the surface of the pool will have this effect. The pool is used in the Scholomance "to allow students to seek for truth within themselves."
The room is found behind a set of close doors at the end of a short, sloping hallway in the Scholomance. The reflecting pool—tiled, clear, and clean—is in the center of the wide room. Its walls are formed of rough rock and are glittering with mica. On the granite floor are the words of the Bible's Book of Judges 15:19 verse: "And God split open the hollow place, and water came out from it", written in gold metal lettering.
History[]
In 2012, Centurion members of the Cohort tortured the faerie prince Kieran and brought him to the Hollow Place, intending to throw him into the pool, which could have killed him. Diego Rosales, Divya Joshi, and Rayan Maduabuchi intervened and saved him, though Manuel Villalobos still managed to kick Kieran into the water. Diego quickly grabbed him so the prince's face only briefly touched the pool, but this had been enough to make him feel remorse and the pain his past actions have caused others, such as Emma Carstairs' whipping. Immediately after, Samantha Larkspear accidentally slipped and fell into the pool. She was helped out of the water by Kieran himself, though the agony she felt was such that she was driven mad and never recovered.