You opened the hatch with an effort, but only froze for a moment when you noticed a barely discernible dark spot. You tried to touch it, but it felt like a tree. The spot itself stretched from the hatch cover, along the edges of the entrance, slowly slipping away somewhere into the darkness. Still determined, you confidently step on the steps that lead down, although the fact of the strange spot still alerted you.
For a few moments you heard only the confident sound of your boots, until you went down to the basement, pausing somewhere in the middle of the stairs. You were strongly alerted by a barely discernible putrid smell of some kind of decomposition. You could call it sweet, but there were no exact examples with which you could associate it. Maybe it's a dead animal, maybe the waste of a strange substance that poisoned the soil in the garden, maybe something in between these facts, only in this darkness you could hardly distinguish the last steps and the floor. Everything that turned out to be on the sides of the basement is simply hidden in darkness.
The very last steps of the descent turned out to be uncertain for you – you had an extremely vague idea of where to go next and only guessed that the entry to the mansion itself would be somewhere ahead.
Almost blindly you had to move on. More than once you stumbled over something on the floor, but whether by the will of luck, but you kept your balance. In the end, you stopped when your shoulder brushed another staircase that led up. You went upstairs without hesitation, and only at the moment when your eyes began to distinguish objects again, do you realize that you have entered the warehouse. A completely small room where there was a free exit, presumably to the kitchen or dining room – the furniture indicated this, as did the kitchen items. The second exit was closed by an ordinary door. You didn't see the lock on it.
After a quick look around, you noticed that there are a lot of boxes here – on the shelves, as well as on the floor, which could have contained anything, but now they are opened and empty.
– entrance to the kitchen
– open the door to the writing room