We spend the rest of the day at the house moving the furniture into practical places. It takes lots of sweat and arm strength to move everything from tables to a fallen chandelier. Some of the stuff that we can’t find a good place to put like the broken chandelier and broken tables and chairs, we take out to the front yard and throw into a pile for later. The place seems way nicer after moving the appliances around. The front room looks quite superb in relation to how it looked before. Now we don’t have to break our backs to try and open the front door!

The kitchen looks great as well. After all the broken plates were carefully picked up from the floor, we then put the remaining appliances into the cupboards and drawers.

Cleaning up the place does make me wonder though, what caused this mess? There are signs of this struggle all around the house, from the room full of swords and shields to the bedrooms downstairs. Oddly enough, there are no signs of blood anywhere around. If a fight indeed happened, then it would have been the weirdest fight ever.

But, there is also the possibility that a burglary occurred, and they ransacked the place to find anything of value. That wouldn’t make any sense though, if somebody did try and burgle here, they would have gone through every room in the house. Seeing that the library and second floor weren’t pillaged like the rest of the house, the option of a burglary doesn’t seem as viable as a fight.

After finishing, Heather and I part ways and head home. Though I have to remember to give Ben Heather’s phone number tomorrow, that is not the most important thing on my mind right now. What I am thinking about right now is the contents of the books that I brought home yesterday. I arrive home, announce my presence even when nobody is there and cook a meal. Once everything I need to do is finished, I head to my room to read more about Kirstin’s life story.

I start where I left off in the diary, with Kirstin talking about how a new family came in today who could hopefully solve the new town’s pneumonia issue. Although it is interesting to learn about what the new settlers faced during their times, I am interested to learn about the house and her experiences with it.

Unlike the last time where it took a few months for the house to be referenced again, this time it only takes two weeks. Kirstin is on (yet another, seriously she goes on them every day) a walk when she goes by the stone house. Wondering if anyone occupies it, she goes through the gate and knocks on the front door. She repeats knocking on the door several times before she enters.

When Kirstin enters, she notes that the place is well kept for. Everything seems to be in tip-top shape and that the candles on the chandelier are burning brightly. Being sort of like Goldilocks, she explores the house. Noting the odd layout as well, she goes to the second floor and sees the archway. Kirstin says that it is the strangest thing that she has ever seen being in a house.

The candles are already on the pedestals when she arrives, though they aren’t lit. She says that there are lit candles everywhere else in the room and that those two candles are the only unlit candles. Finding this strange, she decides to be helpful and light the two candles for whoever lives there and leave. When she is exiting the front door, she is blown off her feet by the same shockwave the hit me when I first activated the archway. Scared out of her mind, she runs away not knowing what caused the force.