Miss Aldridge, as well as the rest of the room, fell silent after Aderyn's straightforward reveal. Her expression switched to a neutral one, but somewhat a slight frown of surprise. It seemed awkward for her to hear about vampires attacking the establishment. However, she saw that it seemed as if the darkly-dressed woman was serious in what she said. Thus, she kept her silence in her, hoping that things will be more clear to her.<br/><br/>Her expression told all of that, until she spoke. "Indeed, we saw a lot of ashes and dust piled everywhere in the penthouse, but they seemed to be more like something coming from ground-up stone than wood ashes. There are also bullet casings there, and a few knives and other weapons near the dust piles. Those traces of weapons and the damage that the furniture got very much tells that you're telling me the truth. But the question is, how were you able to fight the vampires? More so, what brought them there? And how about the fireplace?"<br/><br/>"Miss Aldridge," Beth suddenly said. "It seems as if you're not fazed at all by that. Why?"<br/><br/>"I am not out-of-the-loop of what's happening in Winnfield. Of course, I know that something not right isn't happening here," The hotel administrator said. "After all, this isn't the first time that vampires and other sorts of evil creatures have made a scene in our hotel."<br/><br/>"What do you mean?" Beth asked her.<br/><br/>"Just a week ago, one of our security staff shot one of our guests. It turns out that that guest was a werewolf, and I saw the body myself," Miss Aldridge explained. "And three days ago, another guest turns out to be a vampire. That's the time I knew how fast, strong and deadly they were, but then one of hotel guests happened to be a mage, which quickly dispatched it. And let us not talk about what happened a month ago, with the incident with the mortician who turns out to be a necromancer, and he was using the basement parking as an improvised morgue. Managed to release a few ghouls, even."<br/><br/>"So you're telling us that this hotel attracts creatures like this?" Beth question her further.<br/><br/>"Well, that mage who dispatched the vampire three days ago said that any human-like creatures like that have a tendency to use hotels for a place to stay, and so as mages too. The bigger the hotel is, the more likely for them to be there, especially when it can afford them more privacy." She answered her. "And also told me that these kinds of incidents are happening here more often because something attracts them in this city, but said it isn't this hotel. He said this is the reason why many people are either missing or found dead here."<br/><br/>"Ergo, you are now stating that you are aware about the reports of disappearances or disposals of the populace here, but only knew three days earlier that this is caused by paranormal entities gathering in this urban area. Did I correctly interpret what you stated?" Rattus asked.<br/><br/>"Yes, indeed," Miss Aldridge acknowledged. "But I'm still scared of what's happening here, honestly. Who wouldn't?"<br/><br/>"And also, I have a theory on what happened to the fireplace in the penthouse," He continued. "The alchemist under my employ might have created an energy beacon by combustion in the fireplace and using his concoctions he formulated for the restoration of magical energy as fuel. The question only, at this point, is his motives for doing so." He then looked at the two fae once again, as if he wanted them to answer the question, and give more testimony.