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[You can smell smoke.

This is not usually a good development, so it's natural that no matter where you are in the mansion, you'd stop what you're doing and look around. Maybe glance towards the open window and catch sight of a plume of grey smoke in the distance. Glancing out of the window, you can see that there is a small -- shed? shack? At this distance it's hard to tell -- building erected on the lawn.

In front of it a small campfire is burning brightly. There's no sign of anyone tending it. Do you invest--

Sorry. Silly question! Forgot who I was talking to a moment there.

Of course you investigate.]

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But there's more food than there is seats or plates! No one could possibly eat all of that in a day ... It'll spoil!

[Guess who is getting stressed about this.]

Ah, that's one of the strange things about this place. The food never spoils, or runs out. It's always replaced by some mysterious means when no one is looking.

But if there's so much and they don't need to worry about it--

[Why do they have to work so hard to harvest and send food to Inside? Is it all a lie ... ?]

Do bear in mind that it's only this way in the Mansion. Where I come from, food can be quite hard to come by and most certainly spoils.

But that's not right! It should be for everyone!

Very true. But the magic here works in peculiar ways.

Magic?

It's possible there's another solution but no one's been able to discover one yet.

[That prospect was a lot more comforting and after a moment, Conan nodded coming over to rejoin Ran.]

I'm ready to go now.

You aren't hungry?

[Conan shakes his head. He's not sure how to articulate how he feels about the surplus food and the supplies no one can explain.]

I'm not hungry for their food.

[thinks about this]

There's a kitchen with supplies, if you'd prefer.

Is it like this place?

To a degree. There are ingredients as well as tools.

[Conan hesitated. So far he didn't exactly feel comfortable with the mansion but surely tools were all right. Tools were for using after all, right?]

Cooking pots?

Of course.

[Such internal conflict going on here. Conan hesitates for the longest time, but eventually nods. He's also looking for your hand to hold it again.]

[gives it easily, leading the way to a side door]

The kitchen is usually located next door to the dining room. Both of them have a tendency to stay on the first floor, unless you're trying particularly hard to find them elsewhere.

The rooms shift?

[Pause.]

Ne -- are they not in storage?

Storage?

And they're taken out of storage when they're needed.

I've never heard of rooms being in storage before.

It's only Inside.

...I'm afraid I don't follow. Where else would rooms be, if not inside?

[pushes the door open onto the kitchen]

Ah, here we are.

We build houses Outside too, of course. You saw mine before! But they're very different to Inside.

[Even as Conan replies, he is busy roaming the kitchen, sizing up everything on offer.]