<strong>Kara (a servant girl)</strong>, Kitchen [Kara, Katrina, Justine]<br/><br/>Kara worked at one of the cooking pots. Steam rose from the large, cast iron piece of cookware; it smelled of beef and vegetables. Her manner was slow and distracted, and she didn't seem to notice the two noblewomen as they entered the room.<br/><br/>The girl was on the late edge of her teens, and she was quite pretty because of it. She had long, strawberry-blonde hair; it was braided and tied back, to keep it out of the way while she worked. But most curious of all, Kara's face was pale and her eyes were red from prolonged crying.<br/><br/>From the room, there were several exits. There was a door leading out of the manor, to the back lawn of Avonleigh. There was also another door way off to the right that was already half-open. The two noblewoman could see shelves with items upon them through the partially open portal. And finally, there was a narrow staircase that led way up into the second floor, and possibly beyond.<br/><br/>It was hard to tell exactly what the function of the staircase was, however, because there was a great deal of furniture and other items blocking it. More than that, upon inspection, the two women would realize that items had been piled up on the stairs all the way up to the top of the long stairwell. It would take days of consistent work, or many, many souls working in unison, to clear the path up.