As the saying goes, you should not judge a book by its cover. The building owned by Ciara and Pippin is in definite need of repairs. Both sides of the mansion are lushed with tall trees, their green beautifully complimenting the orange hued, aged wood making up the exterior as well as the spacious porch. But the outside tells nothing of what is on the inside, for the building itself shows a passer-by nothing of extraordinary life and the mystery that surrounds it.
Instead, one must take a closer look inside. A staircase, unsafe by the look of it, sits directly inside the hallway upon entry. To the right is a large and quite spacious Stalker Hall, complete with makeshift seating areas and entertainment systems to keep visitors occupied. It has a doorway directly linked into the kitchen, which takes up a great deal of the rear of the mansion itself. Every imaginable useful appliance, tabletop surface, seating arrangement, and utensil can be found here, though in desperate need of co-ordination. The dining area is surrounded by scuffy glass windows and is elevated to overlook the backyard.
But if one were to take a left at the entrance instead, they would find less habitable rooms. The building itself hasn't completely, nor even half completely, been repaired, thus the home owners left the rooms less often used alone for the time being. A strange and often eerie hallway is full of doors with limitless possibilities, and at the end of the hall a lone window marks a dangerous passage to the right. Cobwebs lock this path off - obviously no one has explored even this far yet.
Up the stairs would bring a person to more unused rooms, though up here they are often locked. [Loot behind these doors, perhaps?] Another set of stairs are available for use in the master bedroom, whose door is left open slightly. Other than these facts, the two upper levels remain the property of Pippin and Ciara, for their "home" purposes.
But, surely a grand place like this would have a basement, you insist! Well, perhaps it does.. but as they say, curiosity killed the cat.
No one has ever determined the exact age of the building before. If they would, perhaps they could then link the approximate age of the building to that of the Library is conceals.
Those who are drawn to the Library often say they were lured there, driven by a force often too compelling to miss out on. Music, noises, lights, movement -- an extensive range of bait is just part of the game to catch the perfect prey. Indeed, the exact entrance down to the Library can never be pinpointed - if one goes in search of the Library, they will more than likely waste hours trying to find it and end up empty handed. The Library chooses its pick of the litter, exposing to them more than they ever intended on finding.
What can be said about the entrance is that it opens to a spiral staircase. At the bottom is a single, uncovered light bulb, often not able to sustain a frequent source of electricity. At the foot of the stairs are two immensely tall frosted glass doors. Etched into them is a golden and pale green design of ivy and other assorted leaves, the handles themselves twisting up into the shape of vines with the part meant for a thumb shaped as a leaf. The size alone can leave someone breathless, but to stop and ponder the time required for these designs and the structure, also taking into consideration the time in which they probably were built, would be astounding to imagine.
It is beyond the doors that the magic even begins.
Rows upon rows, endless to the eye, millions upon millions of books. As impossible as it seems, if someone considered how few stairs there really were, the ceiling seems to go incredibly high that one cannot even see where the books end and the ceiling begins. The doors rest almost in the middle, farther to the back than to the Reading end. Behind the square structure are three completely different locked doors, one barred off halfway by another bookshelf. Directly in front, and often the first things one would notice, are the many rows of reachable book shelves. All of this would easily make someone feel insignificant.
At the far end of the Library, a reading-room-turned-office is set, usually the escape room of choice for Pippin. Whether he is there or not depends on the time of day and what is scheduled, but for some reason he can get upstairs and downstairs at an incredible speed, which makes one wonder if he has his own passage, yet another secret..
There is still more to discover.
