Chapter 7: Daytime investigations

The mansion was surprisingly more welcoming during the day, everything seemed nicer. Clara had decided to head back downstairs, she made sure to have the blade drawn before heading down, just in case. Alice had gone upstairs, she had missed the opportunity to do so last time thanks to the collector, at the top sat a balcony over looking the the main area, to the left was a hall where the bedrooms were. The first room was neatly abandoned, the bed sat in against the wall, a cabinet and dresser opposite to it, another door that she assumed lead to the washroom. In the room across from that was the same, but his one looked like someone robbed it, the bed ripped, the curtains shredded, exposing the window that overlooked the town. The dress seemed to be intact, aside from the mirror. This was the room, the lady from the painting and her dreams, this was her room, perhaps she could learn something from here. The only difference from her dream and right now was the piece of paper, it was a letter to someone, from Anne. It was about some people, Anne's husband, or so Alice assumes, is being warned about some lady named “Penny”, she claims to have been poisoned, the writing becomes gibberish, as if she was in a rush and left abruptly mid sentence. Alice had decided to take the note with her so she can show Ken, see if he had any insight to shed on it, before leaving she decided to check the drawer of the dresser, it was empty aside from another piece of paper, this one was addressed from Henry, it went on about how he no longer loved Anne and that he was leaving her for Penny, Alice had decided not to jump to any conclusions yet, she would need to find more evidence before giving her verdict. Alice joins Clara in the basement as she had supposedly found something,

“ Look! Hidden wall!” Clara says waving her hands enthusiastically at the new opening in the wall, it lead to a cozy room, one long chair facing the empty fireplace, a table sat in between the two. They began looking around, Clara poked around the fireplace, while Alice went through the drawers in the cabinets in the back, to her surprise, she found another letter. Things began piecing themselves together in Alice's mind, this letter would prove it.