<div class="floatright"><sup><em>click to enlarge</em></sup><br/>(http://i.imgur.com/undTFEp.jpg)</div><br/>Lady Arisa gathered her belongings, making sure that she had reclaimed all that she had dropped when in the chair.  The chair, still free of dust, seemed slightly different somehow, now a bit more 'normal' and lifeless then it had seemed earlier.  Whatever force had animated it was gone, it was just a chair.  She was almost certain of it, though not quite, and certainly not enough to test it by sitting in it again.  She  made her way back out into the foyer and shone the lantern around the boxes, eyes searching the shadows that they cast upon the walls.  Then she traveled to the hall that led deeper into the home, finding more boxes piled in the hallway.  It seemed as if there had been a packing, as if the inhabitants of the manor had at one point been packing belongings to leave this place, but had been interrupted at some point.<br/><br/>There sat doors on the north and south side of the hall and one at the very far end, but no symbols or signs gave any clue to what may be beyond.  Strangely enough however, she noticed that while this area was still dusty, it seemed.... 'less' dusty then she had thought earlier.  How was such a thing possible?  She did not know.