The statue's eyes are cold, unfeeling marble, even though someone did thoughtfully apply paint to make them seem to luminesce a faint red; regardless, the statue has no problem at all holding Vormitraax's gaze without wavering.<br/><br/>Bella circles the statue as Aiyaka starts to bound up the trails, and after a few seconds she says, "Oh. There's another plaque in the back! It says..." there's a few seconds silence and then she says, "It says 'Hug Me'. Well. That's wonderful. Whoever this place belongs to has a sense of humor at least. Anyone want to volunteer to hug the creepy demon statue? Anyone at all? Right." She bounds up the stairs to join the kitsune on the second floor. Up the stairs, there's a U-shaped landing that goes most of the way to the wall where the group came in, with a low and ornate wooden guardrail to prevent inadvertent toppling the twenty or so feet to the stone floor below. Every place gives a good overlook of the statue, and of those who stay downstairs examining it. There's a large clear window just above the stairs, letting in warm sunlight and situated over a pair of double doors, and on either side of the landing are single doors leading into parts unknown. Above the doors on each side are a sequence of four beautiful stained glass windows, giving the room the feel of a mix between a cathedral and castle entrance hall. On the left side, the paintings going from the side farthest away towards the stairs depict a sequence. A demoness- by the looks of it the same one immortalized in the statue below- caressing a human man in the first one. In the second, a finely wrought depiction of a naked man halfway into the demoness's jaws, in the third the demoness alone with a swollen stomach, and in the fourth the demoness alone striking a triumphant pose. On the right wall is a similar sequence, only it involves the demoness demonstrating some intricate sexual positions on a nude elf- the fourth one in this sequence is the demoness striding away from what is obviously meant to be a corpse.<br/><br/>"Charming lady," Bella grunts from beside Aiyaka. "Built a statue of herself, and then commissioned all this expensive art showing her conquering mortals. Remind me to steal this stuff if we have time after getting the spear, it'd fetch a mint. And if we can't take it, I wanna smash it. Hello, what's this?" She heads for the wall, and after a pause clambers up onto a chair. "Hey, there's words on this!" There's a thin strip of some silvery metal running above the doors and under the windows, circling around the entire entrance hall; on it are engraved a continuous set of words in a language neither Aiyaka or Bella know. "Better and better," the thief grouses.<br/><br/>[[Okay! We'll see how long this lasts, but I'm going to try to keep some kind of map so you all know the layout of the mansion; here's the start, and you can see how barebones this is going to be. You came in on the bottom side of the entrance hall facing the statue, and Aiyaka and Bella for now are exploring the second floor landing. The diagonal lines are doors out.]]<br/><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;"><img alt="Image" src="http://i.imgur.com/UemnYrX.png"/></div></div></div>