Em hopped up the stairs onto the next floor - the bedroom storey, and started to wander around.
It wasn't very obvious, but the infrastructure was built with a high degree of sophistication. The mansion was split into a few parts, and to get to a place, one will have to take the correct stairs. One's room may be on the third level, but if they take the wrong stairs, they will just get to the wrong section of the mansion. If one is a first timer, they're bound to get lost at the higher levels.
However, if one is used to it, they will realise the design is pretty amazing. However, Em still felt that something is not right.
Em found the height of the mansion a little mismatched. From the outside, the mansion seem like it was tall enough to reach 4 stories high, but there were only three storeys. The ceilings aren't particularly high and the stairs stop at the third level highest, which is the level of their bed rooms.
She tried looking for secret compartments at the third storey, but to no avail. There wasn't any. Unless the doors are hidden in the guest rooms, or one of the housekeeper's rooms. But Em didn't think it would be that simple.
There's also the basement. No matter how you look, the basement looks pretty normal, but there's this thing about its depth, and space. It doesn't seem as wide as it should be.
Even so, when Em tried to measure the length of the basement, it seemed perfectly normal.
Em counted 63 steps when she walked one length of the mansion at the first story, and she tried it again in the basement. 64 the first time, 62 the second time. There wasn't much difference.
Em knew she has great instincts, and it is telling her that there could be another level somewhere, probably the place where this mysterious person with the voice could have hidden himself and made his announcements. But no matter how much she thought, she could not find the bit of information which mismatched.
In the end, she couldn't find anything, so she has to resort to trial and error. If thinking it through is not helpful, then maybe its better to move around.
After a whole lot of searching, she still ended up not finding anything and headed back to her room. She wonders if Misaki would return to her room after all that commotion.
As she waited for Misaki, Em opened a pack of jellybeans on her bed. One by one she threw it up into the air and let it fall on her bed, and only catching the ones that will fall into her mouth. (Sorry... I'm a litter bug =X)
Out of ten jellybeans she threw, she only caught one in her mouth. One fell onto the floor, and one hit her forehead. The rest were scattered. The last one rolled and landed beside another jellybean.
Em sat up and grabbed the two jellybeans.
"Ahhahh~ the blue one dropped on the floor..." Em shrugged as she stretched her head out to see the one that dropped. She then held up the two jellybeans that she grabbed. "Luckily I have one more~ Hee~" and she popped the blue jellybean that she grabbed into her mouth.
The other jellybean was purple. She liked the purple one a lot, so she decided to throw it back into the packet and left the rest of the jellybeans on her bed.
*Creak* (The sound of the door opening.)
Ah. Misaki is back.
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=X A play on jellybeans.