<span style="font-style: italic"> Through the looking glass...</span><br/><br/>((This is pretty well what is instantly visible through the glass for all those spending time to look! This is not including the four individuals conversing out front, as little more can be told about them from this distance! ^_^))<br/><br/>The house itself seems to be a rather large structure, two story, with space for a solid four or five rooms on each floor. Given the size of the rundown farm itself, there's also a good chance there's a cellar somewhere underneath the house for storage, as it looks like the haul during harvest season would have been quite considerable.<br/><br/>Cyria's mention of a potential 'open window' draws a little attention to the upper floors, and sure enough, it looks like two of the windows stand wide open, no doubt to allow a little bit of ventilation and a share of the cool spring breeze to blow inside, cooling the interior.  Whilst not especially large, the windows are certainly large enough for just about anyone but Thygor to squeeze into, and given the slightly rundown state of the building, if HE really wanted to, he could likely crash through the window with no difficulty.<br/><br/>The distance spanning the group's current location in the forest (The outer edge of the forest, where the trees provide ample cover, even to the largest party members), to the building itself was roughly three to four hundred yards, with the hundred or so yards closest to the forest peppered with tree stumps, remnants of trees that had been felled but not fully extracted to allow for more plowable farmland. The stumps themselves range from a foot to three or so high, and are generally dozens upon dozens of armlengths around, allowing plenty of places to hide, if anyone cared to risk being spotted.<br/><br/>The open area between the edge of the forest and the homestead is largely overgrown, with knee-high grass, though it sadly offers very little opportunity for hiding, unless one wanted to creep forwards on their belly a few inches at a time - a undertaking that would be lengthy, but doable.<br/><br/>The backside of the building is hidden from view, though a good ten to fifteen minute walk through the edges of the forest would allow the group to potentially come in from the rear for a surprise assault, though that also ran the obvious risk of a posted scout seeing them.<br/><br/>A few hundred feet BEYOND the house, another building rose, this one an old barn that was overgrown with ivy, and likely had very, very little of worth inside. Still, it could house an outlook, peering out from the open loft, or it could serve as a storage area for usable equipment - unlikely, given the mercs would have searched it, but it there was a slim possibility they'd overlooked something.