[PQ] this is the house that Jack built

She is nothing if not efficient, particularly when time is short. Luckily it seems like her two helpers are either used to her curtness or don’t mind, and as they part, the Queen feels like each floor is probably in good hands. Wessex sets to her task, hauling a large number of empty barrels, rusted old tools, household items, and filthy old sacks from the stone-lined cellar. It’s borderline cold down there, but her pale hands don’t feel the chill or the dampness of the stones, it doesn’t seep into her the way it might a mortal. There’s plenty of room down there once she gets the majority of junk out and into the coming daylight. At least she doesn’t have to battle a golem. Again. Rexanna may find that there is a colony of Humming Bats in the second floor, nestling comfortably in high, sloped roof of the second floor. Evie may find that if she leans against a back wall of the room on the left side of the staircase, that a certain part of the wood paneling slides back and reveals a hollow wall. The very slim pathway leads around the kitchen to the other room on the ground floor, to a doorway that long ago was covered over and lost in ivy. Might still be able to open it! Wessex doesn’t find anything interesting other than some super old (and probably very good) alcohol. ---------------- No posting order! WESSEX come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts unsex me here