Haze opened the door and looked out. Then she held it open for Lucky, and looked back towards him. "By the way, did you find anything in here?" Edit; Haze walked up to the portrait. "Wait a second... there's something about this picture..." She scanned image, trying to spot what it was that had caught her eye. Her face was almost touching the canvas as she searched it's ink, determined not to miss anything.
Dave (They are at the bottom of the stairs leading up to the bedroom area by this time.) The pony gave him a dubious look and probably would have started flailing and screaming again, if Violet hadn't appeared from out of nowhere and extended a hoof, tripping Dave. He tumbled forward and smacked into the wall ahead of him, narrowly missing a small table with a vase on it. Violet approached Dave. This was probably the angriest she had been since they had arrived at the mansion. In fact, it was probably the most emotion period she'd shown since they'd arrived. "And what, may I ask, are you doing dragging an employee out of his room while he is trying to sleep? And what, might I add, are you doing out of bed in the first place? Thumping around and causing a ruckus is not appreciated here. You're lucky the Doctor is forgiving, and even more lucky that I'm giving you a second chance by not telling him about this." She helped the pony that Dave had been dragging downstairs back up from his tumble, and then helped Dave up as well. Haze After thouroghly examining the portrait, she determined: The painting was of a young colt who looked quite intelligent. Almost like a mad scientist, but without the evil aura. He seemed to be in his prime. ... He was actually quite handsome. As much as she hated to admit it, this was probably why it had caught her eye. ... ANYways, it was painted with oil paint on canvas, and framed in wood with a name plaque at the bottom.
(( XD kay then... )) Haze starred at the picture for a few seconds, unaware of the time passing by... After a while, she snapped out of it, shaking her head and raising a hoof to her mouth, releasing a little cough. Y'know, like an "Anyway" cough. This handsome pony here... Haze wondered, exactly who was he? Her eye traveled down to the Name plaque on it's frame and she read...
Dr. Fortis Mentis, was what the plaque read. Which was all well and good, until Haze noticed that it didn't look like Dr. Mentis at all. Not even a little bit. There was no way that this was the same pony who was in the dining room talking to Silver at this very moment. ... But what did that mean?
Haze didn't think much of this. The pony in the Dinning room had introduced himself as Dr. Compos Mentis, not Dr. Fortis Mentis. This pony, shown in the portrait, was likely a family member of the Doctor's- Unless he changed his name and had an extreme amount of plastic surgery. Which there'd be no reason for such a handsome stallion to have... The image showed that this pony was, too, a doctor. Haze wondered where this pony might be, where he might be working. perhaps he was inside the Asylum right now, or perhaps he went on to other things? Perhaps this painting's rather old... Haze loooked back down to the painting's plaque, to check the date this picture was made.
That was some time ago, much longer tha how long Haze'd been alive. This pony was likely about 65 today (Which was a shame). It was still very unlikely to be Dr. Compos Mentis... Haze stuck the image and information she'd gathered about it into her memory, and gave a last glance towards it, to check she'd not left anything, before, turning around. "It's nothing. Shall we get going?" Haze checked again that nobody was around in the hall, and walked out the room.
Dave Violet glared at him, clearly not buying his story. "IN ANY case, it is far past time for you to be in your room. You too, Mr. Eller." She nudged him around Dave while the employee stared nervously at him, as if expecting Dave to bat Violet out of the way and continue on with his ponynapping spree. They left up the stairs, but not before Violet gave him one last look. "The next time I see you, Mr. Chrofsky, had better be tomorrow morning. Otherwise you won't be having such a fun stay here." With that, she followed Mr. Eller up the stairs.
But there was people outside the room, in the hall- Dave, and two members of staff. They turned around, and back up the stairs that led to the rooms. What would their reaction be when they found nopony in their beds!? Oh, really nice going there, Dave! As the door closed behind them, Haze signalled Lucky, and made a dash for the exit, whilst nopony was around.
(Oh, look, you managed to escape yourself. ) Haze and Lucky made it to the exit, and met up with Tyro, Zephyr and Dark.
"Hey guys... so so sorry... we're late..." They had flown, as it was quicker, but Haze was a little out of breath. She took a deep breath on landing and continued. "D-Dave got himself captured, and he led the staff up to the rooms, and it's likely they're gonna find out we're out of bed... I'm sorry guys, I didn't know what to do..."
Dark Shine sighed. "Dang it Dave. Alright. Keep your ears out ready. If you hear ANYTHING, motion that you can and we will go find a place to hide." He nodded before sitting down next to the wall of the building.
Dave got up onto his hooves again and followed haze up the stairs "What should do now?" Dave asked the group wondering what would happen now.
((Wait, I'm confused, what's Dave doing here? )) "Well... He was taken against his will... "... What do we do now then?" Haze suddenly remembered her reason for sticking behind in the first place. "Ooh, Silver's okay by the way."
(I don't know, there was some sort of misunderstanding. As far as I know, Dave is still at the bottom of the stairs that lead up to the bedrooms...)
(Im confused soo) Dave got up and trotted towards the meeting area, "Times like this I need vodka..." Dave mumbled to himself quietly.
(All right, we'll just say you're all at the meeting area except for Silver, for the sake of convenience.)
