The Sundial, by Cervarain

He emerges out of a hole into sort of a statue garden, an atrium in the middle of a series of buildings. He has no idea where he is or how he got there. All the doors are locked. The statuary in here beasts with their backs towards the four walls of the court,. hooking berry lambdas, arctochers, which Cervarain actually gives us a definition and bears.