Rimeera would have to call after Natya for a bit, to get her to return; the girl had taken off at a dead run, wanting to put a good distance between herself and the shack.<br/><br/>Once she entered the room off of the kitchen, she'd quickly discover the grisly fate of the old witch. Once an alchemical laboratory, the equipment in this room has fallen into decay. Ancient chemical spills create weird stains and colorful crystalline growths amid the partially collapsed workbenches. Old Megus’s skeleton, still dressed in tattered clothes, also lies among the workbenches. An examination of the witch’s remains quickly reveals that some hideous transformation or deformity has disfigured her skeleton—the skull seems half melted and weirdly elongated in the face, one arm looks more like a bird’s talon, and the ribs have grown long spurs of bone that protrude both into and out of the rib cage. It was likely this last deformity that killed her.<br/><br/>A search of the room reveals a dry corner, with a hidden stash of goods. The stash contains 33 gp, a masterwork dagger in a steel scabbard worth 15 gp, and a scroll tube containing two scrolls of cure light wounds, two scrolls of false life, and a scroll of water walk (all of these scrolls function at caster level 7th).