After getting over the travel through the portal Krusten looks around to see if all is the same as she left it and if she can attempt her running skill again.
On your return, everything is just as it was when you left so returning to the challenge of the second contraption felt appropriate.
Whatever you learned while away paid off in a big way as you were able to surpass the expectations of even yourself. Your marvelous Run enabled you to reach a certain part of the test so now you can continue with the Lift. It is a large stone object that blocks your path from the next stage of the challenge.
Glad that is over Krusten starts to talk to herself, "you can do it!" She hopes this will boost her outcome and give her the same success she had in the run. She grabs hold of the stone and lifts.
If this was a challenge back at the Tavern you would have likely succeeded but for this contraption you have met your match in the Lift. You raise up and take a deep breath wondering if to give up or try again.
This isn't going to make me back away she says to herself as she insists that this is just a minor setback because she approached the lift in the wrong way.
The stone refuses to budge. Under normal circumstances you would have irrevocably failed but in this mysterious place you are free to try and try again as you feel no immediate exhaustion from your attempt.
Shaking her head she stands erect and stretches attempting to make her muscles more limber and able to take up the task in front of her. She then bends and puts herself in the position she was taught… "Lift!" she says out loud.
Feeling like it wasn't meant for her she looks over the stone wondering if trying again will do it or if she would let failure take its course.