In a mocking tone, the voice responds to Elthic, Eleria, and Abdul each in turn, "Ooohh, a talking house! Where? Hahahaha. Watch out, the doors are very threatening! And if you take apart this house, would not poor Lucias take the cost out of your hides?
"The rightful owner?! No such thing exists. And if you had listened more carefully, you would already understand that. Unfortunately, what we expect and what we receive are often very different things in life. Give you what you have come for? Would that not stand contrary to what I have already made clear about my intentions?
"As for showing myself and telling you what I have to hide...Perhaps your friend Xir could sum it up best with one of his desert people sayings: 'Ask not the blind man what he sees, nor the deaf man what he hears, nor the hidden what it is they have to hide.' Did I get that correctly, Xir? Well enough, I think. For now, we shall see how you do against what awaits you within. If you are very lucky, perhaps we shall speak again..." The voice trails off into a silence which no additional questions seem to end.
Looking into the house from the open doors, Elthic and those behind him see a very dimly lit room opening up on their right side. Thanks to each person's low light vision or darkvision, the lack of light does not hamper you in the slightest from making out a set of stairs leading up and directly away from them to the left-front, and directly to the left is a closed single wooden door. The room on the right side appears to be a den. A couch and coffee table sit in front of a fireplace on the east wall, and the northern wall is occupied with a row of bookshelves along it which end beside a statue. The statue stands beside an open archway into another room to the north. Straight through the archway, you see what should be the back door of the house along the far wall.
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