She is, as long as she's able to spot the signs that the creature's about to breathe steam, since it's currently more focused on spinning to get a blow at Ena. It's slow, at least, no matter how powerful, and Ena dances around it. Between her and Elana, they finish the automaton, though it's a slog of a fight.

Ena breathes out heavily when it falls and starts healing herself while looking around. There's a second automaton of the same make, destroyed, across the landing, and further stairs up.

Good, she doesn't want to have to fight another just yet.

Slink slink slink, up the stairs she goes - and pauses on the landing near the top, hearing faint voices. She glides forwards and peeks around a corner - the last two (and most heavily armored) members of the expedition have apparently survived to this point, and are now arguing over who gets the glory. The woman's trying to talk down the man, who attacks her with a frustrated scream - and is quickly killed.

The woman recovers neatly after her killing blow, breathing heavily - and is immediately felled by Ena's arrow through her windpipe.

Ena walks over, looks around the room, and doesn't find any further enemies. There's a lift up directly ahead of them, and in the center of the room a complicated mechanism. Ena glances over at it, and says, "I'm pretty sure that's where the key goes."

"Seems like." One dwarven sphere, coming up. There's an obvious depression at the top that she drops it into.

The mechanism shudders and then whirls, and the floor falls beneath them into stairs that descend towards an ornate door.

Beyond is - the word 'cavernous' doesn't do it justice. Behemoths of stalactites fall from the ceiling, and a soft blue glow envelops the enormous space as the distant cave vanishes into mist. Mushrooms taller than most trees nod their heads, trailing glowing lines like overgrown jellyfish. They're on a landing of some kind. Shortly in front of them, on the ground itself, is a small building, with a dwarven sphere resting curled up on its stoop. A giant crossbow-like thing points at the door of the building, a lever beside it. There's further buildings, barely visible in the gloom, and the soft rush of a waterfall somewhere to their right, the chime of nirnroot echoing all around them.

"Well. Here's a place."

"Yeah. This is - something else."

"Answers the mystery of how there could be an underground tower."

"This is practically an underground city. Outlying lands and all."

"Mightn't be a bad place to live. Though getting food all the way down here would be a problem."

"Would be convenient for vampires, and anything else that dislikes the sun. And these mushrooms are growing somehow, and those creatures were getting food from somewhere."

"Eating the mushrooms, perhaps."

"Could be. C'mon, let's try to find this tower." She creeps forwards, considers the automaton ahead of them, sights along the crossbow - it's not actually pointing at the automaton, and she can't figure out how to move it. She groans, then crouches behind the low wall and knocks an arrow. A few quick shots, and the automaton's dead before it can reach the stairs.

"At least there seems to be plenty of cover, here, though this gloom advantages those eyeless creatures more than us. Still... I think I can see a promontory up ahead, we might be able to get a good view of the cave from the top of it, and we might want to investigate some of those buildings. Though I can hardly see anything from here..."

"Your sight will be better in the other form. Shift."

She shifts, and - that is indeed slightly better, though she still can't see through the distant mist or the low mushrooms, and the main path is still blocked from view by a ridge. She hums, then shifts back. "Yeah, that's better, though that form isn't as good for stealth. I can shift into it when we're trying to plot out a path. Doesn't look like there's anything hostile between us and that promontory, if we want to go there."

"That seems prudent."

She makes her way over cautiously - the rock is behind a half-sunken building, and juts out well above the surrounding area. Ena stays crouched down and shifts, pointing out a road to their left - which has another of those giant humanoid automatons in a docking station. A strange, insectoid creature also ambles along the road, and after a few moments Ena spots another eyeless creature in the wilderness ahead of them, near where the road passes under a tower bridge. There's a lake to their right, waterfalls cascading down into it from slightly behind them, strange organic pods that pulse softly with light in clusters along its shores. What looks like an access road, unlit, runs from where the lake turns into a river, around some rocks, and towards ahead of them.

And, in the distance, past the hazy outlines of some buildings, is an orange, spherical glow - what looks like a giant, ornate lamp.

Huh.

"I want to take a closer look at that."

"Yeah. That access road to the right looks clearer for now, though who knows what's farther down it. I think both roads probably go to that lamp."

"I'd rather avoid that colossus."

She nods, and starts feeling out a path down the cliff.

Getting onto the access road is a bit complicated, involves jumping onto a rock beside a small building then onto some pipes coming out from it that arc across the riverhead, but they're on it soon enough. There's nothing moving on the road, though there's some wisps to their left at one point, until they come to a point where it passes under a bridge - and there's a dead colossus collapsed beneath the overpass.

Any sign of what downed it?

It has long, non-parallel gash marks in softer places, and looks like someone burned it - in addition to the lightly melted metal, the ground around it is charred.

"This doesn't look like the eyeless."

"No... And those scorch marks... Either someone with a very, very strong and wide-area fire spell, or a dragon. Or someone with Shouts, though the Greybeards don't leave their mountain and my sister couldn't breathe fire last I checked."