secret room on the ground floor has a secret passage, but the door above is obvious???
no, the above room can be the treasures of the collection and there is no hint of a lower room - it is the secret books - magicks
and there is no access from the librarian's chamber to the records room beneath
is a big, heavy, wood medieval door with iron hinges - the door itself is surely several inches thick there are three keyholes forming a triangle in the center of the door
and I'm thinking a big door in the floor between the librarian's chamber above and the records room below surely it wouldn't be built that way, though - it would look like it had been added no no no - it's a door that open right up to the stairs like the stairs go to a door in the main library room
Miranda leaves the sickening smells and terrible feelings of the hospice hall, the sights and visions still churning inside her soul, like poisoned food.
The red carpeted hallway offers two choices, but the open doorway in front of her, just a bit to the left, was too attractive. It was a smell she knew well and had loved all her life. After all that sickness, any smell would do, but, the smell of old books was sweeter than summer honeysuckle to her nose. She suddenly feels a bit invigorated and hopeful - maybe not all in this bizarre place she mysteriously finds herself is horrific. The good feeling increases her guts die one rank to d8.
Miranda walks through the sliding door, that is slid open, and begins looking around, taking in as much as she can at once, before investigating anything close up. Well, taking in as much as she can with only lantern light. She gets a good idea of the layout of the room and the shelves and tables and such by walking along the southern wall toward the wall of books on the west wall.
This room is deep quiet. Not a single echo. Sounds fall flat to the floor or sink into the books and wooden shelves.
And so the sound of the ladder on the west wall moving is perfectly clear.
When Miranda looks, she sees something she didn't notice before.
A small stack of books is floating in the air. Just hanging there, but moving, ever so slightly, as though being held by a hand, rather than a surface.