As she examines the leather bound tome in her hands, Ashlyn frowns as she sees the bloodstained first page.
Still frowning, Ashlyn turns to Khensu and motions him over. Showing him the book she asks, "What do you think? Is it what you were looking for?"
Ashlyn waits for Khensu's appraisal as to whether this is the Tome that he, Jarrith, Janis and Marot were looking for and then she nods and speaks again, "In that case let us persue it later once we are out of this place. It would be more prudent to examine it thoroughly in a place of relative safety ... not here."
Ashlyn then takes back the tome and places it within the haversack that she still carries.
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Ashlyn then turns to look over the room carefully before she speaks again, and when she speaks, her question is not directed any anyone in particular, but instead to all present, "This place strikes me as odd. Why would this room, and this room only, be so apparently habitable? I can only think of two reasons: Firstly, that it is somehow important to the lord of the castle, but then why not clean and secure the surrounding rooms also, as he did downstairs; Or secondly, that like the room downstairs on our arrival, this room is being used to entertain guests, but we are the only ones present here, ... I do not trust this."
Ashlyn's seems to be thinking hard as she continues, "Perhaps the lord has no concern for the undead creatures here and perhaps he simply likes books, ... but I do not trust that it is that simple. There are to many coincidences here. Something else is going on that we know nothing about and it disturbs me."
Finally Ashlyn shakes her head and concludes, "We should leave. There is much to do and this place makes me .... uneasy."
The final words sound almost like a confession, and it is clear that recent discoveries have unsettled the lady knight. Perhaps she is simply unused to being in a situation in which she is ignorant of precisely what is going on.