<div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/FMIZHpZ.jpg)<br/><br/>(http://i.imgur.com/HWdVNNM.jpg)</div><br/>She stepped out into the hall and with the lantern now in her hand, shining clean white light through the dusty gloom of the old house, she felt much safer.  That sense of forboding, the sense of darkness and evil still lingered out of sight at all times.  But gone were the images, the ghostly figures, the specters that may or may not have been there before.  It made her question if those touches, those visions of spirits, had been real when she'd been in the gallery in the darkness or had only been in her head.<br/><br/>Still she couldn't shake the feeling that the pictures were moving, looking at her, shifting as soon as the light moved away from them.  But Arisa was starting to understand this place.  The fear was beginning to slip into knowledge.  This house was 'haunted' of course, but such a thing was so broad, so inaccurate, it was more than that.  Something had happened here, something that made this house different, special.  It was stuck out of time and with beings that were both of this world and also not.  Of course there was more here then she could likely learn in one night, and more then she could learn in a year's worth of dark nights.  But at least she was beginning to understand.<br/><br/>She turned in the hall and stopped at the first door throwing it wide.  The darkness inside showed no immediate signs of habitation so she stepped in and shone the lantern around.  It appeared to be a bathing room, and she wasn't surprised when she heard the door shutting behind her.  The house, she knew now, did not like to have its rooms open.  When she was in a room she was cut off from everything else, forced to experience it.  She shone the light around and at first glance nothing jumped out at her as being significant or scary.  But there was always more beneath the surface, wasn't there?<br/><br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">ooc</div><div class="spoiler_body">You can make a search roll if you want to search the room, or if you write otu specifically what she's doing I'll respond to that.<br/><br/>Just a reminder, you can click most images to enlarge them.</div></div>