It had been three hours since the massive doors had slammed closed on her. It had been a ridiculous invitation that drew her to the manor, one that in retrospect should have been discarded the moment she first lay eyes on it. A simple card was all that had been left in invitation. Mostly black in colour with silver calligraphy "to those seeking" the message seemed simple, but upon taking the card in hand the words wrote them self in the air before tapering off in to a thin silver thread. Her name sounded whispered on the wind so faint she could barely hear it, her given name her real one. That was all it had took to make her decision. Grabbing her over filled pack from the ground she left following the thin silver line until she came across the manor.
"to those seeking huh?" her pace slowed for but a moment as she pushed past the dense shrubbery to reach the gates. Oddly although the line extended past them they were barred tight causing her to throw her bag over the before following aided by a lone birch that grew beside the wall. Finding a place to drop had proved a problem as it was a higher drop than she felt comfortable with to uneven ground. It resulted in her backtracking a way across the wall before she had found a suitable spot to drop it recovering her bag.
She walked up the rubble path aware that the direct approach was odd for her, but she had the feeling that it would make no difference whether she concealed her self or not as she approached the towering manor. "17 18 19" she gave up counting the windows when ever she thought she had got close to counting them all another set would catch her eye almost as if taunting her.
Making sure her hood was tightly secured she stepped on to the long wooden porch her foot steps immediately echoed in the empty space below it. "hello?" her voice sounded oddly loud and she looked on the door for a knocker but found nothing but a long word carved in to the door, she spent a minute trying to read it but did not recognise the characters. "huh." She pushed the palm of her hand firmly on one of the doors, and they both swung easily open along with a blast of stale wind. She found her self in a massive hallway, oak panels and grand stair cases towered off in all directions while armour and vases lined the walls but most interestingly to her in the centre of the room the silver line ended in a large ball of light, she approached it tentatively, extending a hand to touch it, and just as she did BANG. The room went pitch black as the doors slammed shut, the orb of light extinguished as it never was there was silence.
That had been three hours ago and after nearly quarter of an hour pummelling the doors to try and get them open again she had finally given in taking one of the massive stair cases up to the higher floors. (t was immediately apparent to her this was no ordinary manor as passages extended in all directions and out of sight. sighing to her self she chose one at random and followed it in to the semi darkness.
"to those seeking huh?" her pace slowed for but a moment as she pushed past the dense shrubbery to reach the gates. Oddly although the line extended past them they were barred tight causing her to throw her bag over the before following aided by a lone birch that grew beside the wall. Finding a place to drop had proved a problem as it was a higher drop than she felt comfortable with to uneven ground. It resulted in her backtracking a way across the wall before she had found a suitable spot to drop it recovering her bag.
She walked up the rubble path aware that the direct approach was odd for her, but she had the feeling that it would make no difference whether she concealed her self or not as she approached the towering manor. "17 18 19" she gave up counting the windows when ever she thought she had got close to counting them all another set would catch her eye almost as if taunting her.
Making sure her hood was tightly secured she stepped on to the long wooden porch her foot steps immediately echoed in the empty space below it. "hello?" her voice sounded oddly loud and she looked on the door for a knocker but found nothing but a long word carved in to the door, she spent a minute trying to read it but did not recognise the characters. "huh." She pushed the palm of her hand firmly on one of the doors, and they both swung easily open along with a blast of stale wind. She found her self in a massive hallway, oak panels and grand stair cases towered off in all directions while armour and vases lined the walls but most interestingly to her in the centre of the room the silver line ended in a large ball of light, she approached it tentatively, extending a hand to touch it, and just as she did BANG. The room went pitch black as the doors slammed shut, the orb of light extinguished as it never was there was silence.
That had been three hours ago and after nearly quarter of an hour pummelling the doors to try and get them open again she had finally given in taking one of the massive stair cases up to the higher floors. (t was immediately apparent to her this was no ordinary manor as passages extended in all directions and out of sight. sighing to her self she chose one at random and followed it in to the semi darkness.