Yes, and I will accompany you. But first I will see what is in this room.
[The one where the glass has broken. Whatever glass it was, which is what Val intends to find out. He crosses the short distance and throws the door open to the room beyond, to see what he might see. Perhaps he will find a real flesh and blood servant that has been put up to trickery, or perhaps he will see the mechanics of the system that opened the front door and produced the footsteps.
Really, he should not give her the satisfaction of looking. But he wants to look. So if he wants it, that means she can't also be satisfied by it, because he will have derived the satisfaction first, and there will be too little left for her to make a meal of.]
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[The one where the glass has broken. Whatever glass it was, which is what Val intends to find out. He crosses the short distance and throws the door open to the room beyond, to see what he might see. Perhaps he will find a real flesh and blood servant that has been put up to trickery, or perhaps he will see the mechanics of the system that opened the front door and produced the footsteps.
Really, he should not give her the satisfaction of looking. But he wants to look. So if he wants it, that means she can't also be satisfied by it, because he will have derived the satisfaction first, and there will be too little left for her to make a meal of.]