Jominda takes a look at the mess and picks up a tribal mask that she finds interesting. "Why have you all these books and maps and stuff on the floor?"
"No, we haven't." Kendra says with worry on her face. "I mean, we heard there was a beast apprehended, but we didn't know it broke into the university. What kind of monster could have done this destruction?"
"I don't suppose you have been able to make a thorough investigation on which way it was heading precisely, and what you have stocked there?"
Jominda wanders off checking the area.
After Jominda is out of sight you hear a stern voice from the auditorium scolding someone "Don't touch this! That is not for the students!"
"hmm, what area of the university do you work in, Professor? I was just wondering if that window there is opened often."
Upon hearing the stern scolding voice, Kendra hurries into the auditorium.
Herm will listen to the professors description of the beast and the events that unfolded. Nodding his head, then Herm will take a look around the room.
Herm will look at the shelves in the work shop, Hearing the yelling Herm will follow Kendra drawing his hammer. Upon seeing that Jominda is getting into trouble, Herm will note the large foot print. "Did someone witness the beast inside? That is a rather LARGE foot print in the floor there."
"I ran here under the pretense that something was happening, maybe next time ser your voice won't be so shrill that I will think a woman is under attack by a large monster." Herm nods with a slight grin and move over to Jominda.
"Please don't scare the men as such, and the hammer is for protection. I will put it away now." Herm puts the hammer back in the holster upon his back.
Jominda comes back from the iron back door. "Is the old spinster gone?" she asks Herm while peeking into the auditorium. As she doesn't see her anymore Jominda returns to Kendra and Dr. Crowl.
"Look what I found." she tells holding up a small bell tied to a silver wire. "That was at the back door. Which is funny. It is much too small to be a doorbell."
"what do you make of it?" Herm beats a hasty retreat after not realizing the woman was a woman.
Dina looks at the space, but walks happy after Herm to the foyer.
Kendra frowns. "Herm, why would you think the monster returned? I doubt that professor would've said things were not for students... "She looks apologetically at the professor."My apologies, Dr. Cowl. I hope I wasn't this much trouble here when I was younger."
"I remarked upon the windows because it seems one had been opened recently." She points out the missing grime.
"There also seems to have been cast an alarm on the back door... And Herm noticed some rather large footprints. There seems to have been more going on here than a simple beast breaking through the wall and wreaking havoc."
"How can you tell from here, that there was a spell cast on the back door?" Jominda asks.
"Because of that little bell" Kendra says, pointing at the bell Jominda's holding.
Turning back to professor Cowl, she continues "I don't know why the window was opened... That's important to figure out, I think."
She walks over to the window to look outside.
Jominda looks at the bell and back at Kendra. She feels stupid for not knowing what the connection is. But all Alendru tried to teach her were cantrips. And they have no material components. So the concept is foreign to her.
Kendra looks outside, but while the windows are fine for letting the light in and giving the room a more open feeling, they don't allow for thorough investigation of the outside.
"We should check if there's any clues outside. Maybe more of those huge footprints."
She turns round to the professor again. "This seasage effigy, what was it for? Is there any story that tells about its power?"
Kendra frowns in thought. "Was there anything else here of import or magical power that you haven't yet found?"
She looks around the room again to see if there's any pattern to the destruction.
Jominda opens the window and climbs out.
But she finds nothing worth to mention.
"Do you keep any replicas or copies stored elsewhere?" Harrold says as he moves over to the window that Kendra indicated of being opened, and closes it and then opens it, testing how difficult it is. He then compares that to trying to open one of the others.
"We had an interesting time before we came here. If everyone had taken things at face value then, we may have lost our town to undead." Harrold says as he climbs out the window unsteadily, "A sketch would be useful. I must ask, if the culprit was found, did they find the effigy on his person?"
Bending down and feeling a depression in the soil, "Where did they catch the beast? Precisely."
"Then who came in through the window?" Harrold asks
"How do you know that? I see nothing." Jominda inquires, wondering if Harrols communes with the grass.
"Come kneel here." Harrold says patting the ground next to him.
"You see how the grass here is flatter than around it? And how some of the blades are broken? If you are gentle you can also feel an impression in the dirt here." He says pointing to examples as he speaks.
Herm looks out the window, looking around for clues.
"It just gave up? Didn't this beast go on murderous rampages? Or so they say?"
"Harrold," Jominda says, "Do you mean something else came through the window than the beast?"
"All I can say is that their was someone standing here. Whether they came in or just watched from outside I can't say for certain."
"Considering that's the only window that was opened, I think we should assume someone did. Which means there were two people here - one large footprint and one normal size."
"I guess we know who the one with the large feet is." Jominda concludes.
"The apprehended monster?" Kendra wonders.
"Can we go see it?" Kendra asks excited.
Kendra smiles through the open window at the excited woman.
"First things first, dear." Turning to Herm, she says "I believe you carried my father's books?"
"I have them yes, just a moment" Herm goes and retrieves a large satchel with all of the books that the Professor borrowed.
"Dr. Can you tell me what the interest behind all these books was?"