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Mercyverse Residences

This is a quick list of the all identified residences in the Mercyverse. Major residences have links that will lead to pages with expanded details

How to Read the Format:

Name: Alphabetical
IA: Initial Appearance or Mention (Book or Short Fiction) - Link will lead to series or short fiction summaries and snapshot.
Location:
Affiliated: Characters affiliated with the residence. Blueprint: If available. Link will lead to individual character pages with expanded details.
Description

  • Broken Down by Series/Short Fiction with page notation

Major Character Homes

Mercy Thompson Series

Adam Hauptman House

Mercy Thompson Trailer

Mercy Thompson Trailer | Trailer Blueprint
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Finley, Washington
Affiliated:
Medea
Mercy Thompson
Samuel Cornick

Description

  • Unordered List Item

Alpha & Omega Series

Bran Cornick House

Charles & Anna Cornick House

Minor & Secondary Character Homes

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Andre Lair

IA: Mercy Thompson Series #2: Blood Bound
Location: Pasco, Washington
Affiliated:
Andre

Description
Blood Bound

  • a pretty little house mostly hidden behind a huge pole building277
  • sat on a couple of acres of land next to the wildlife preserve near Hood Park just outside of Pasco277
  • has a gravel drive
  • the pole barn is motor home sized; that along with strategically planted foliage, protected his privacy278
  • neighboring houses but they were closer to the highway278
  • grass was knee high, and flowers were planted around the edge of the house, long dead280
  • Like the house, the dining room was small but pretty. The floor was oak, antiqued with a white wash that made the room feel bigger than it was. On one side of the room was a brick fireplace. Family photographs covered most of the surface of the mantelpiece. Children and grandchildren, and none of them related to Andre281
  • the kitchen was surprisingly big for the size of the house. Someone had painted the wooden cabinets white, then toll-painted flowers and vines all over. The window over the sink was covered with dark green garbage sacks sealed with duct tape so no light would get through281
  • the basement was a very deep hole dug into the dirt to allow access to the plumbing under the house. There were a few old shelves leaned up against a foundation wall, and some fencing materials. On the other side of the room was a canopy bed straight out of a bodice-ripper romance283

Angus Hopper House

IA: Alpha & Omega Series #2: Hunting Ground
Location: Issaquah, Washington
Affiliated:
Angus Hopper
Emerald City Pack

Description
Hunting Ground

  • close to the airstrip and hanger but well hidden by the trees21
  • like Bran's house it had been built to take advantage of the natural topography, and the surrounding trees effectively hid a good deal of its bulk23

Anna Cornick Apartment

IA: Alpha & Omega Series #0.5: Alpha & Omega Novella
Location: Oak Park, Illinois
Affiliated:
Anna Cornick

Description
Alpha & Omega Novella Cry Wolf

  • 4th floor studio apartment10
  • a card table with two battered folding chairs; a futon and not much else10

Asil Moreno|1 House

IA: Alpha & Omega Series #1: Cry Wolf
Location: Aspen Creek, Montana
Affiliated:
Asil Moreno

Description
Cry Wolf

  • has a porch swing123

Roses in Winter

  • hardy roses are planted outside near the house279
  • has outdoor gardens282
  • a narrow gully past that296

Unappreciated Gifts

  • has roses planted outside268

Asil and the Not-Date

  • house is surrounded by mountain wilderness201
  • has a computer desk and computer202
  • kitchen off the living room202

Asil Moreno|Greenhouse

Description
Cry Wolf

  • his greenhouse has an air lock170

Roses in Winter

  • grows tomatoes in his greenhouse275
  • greenhouse is on drip lines275
  • roses in the greenhouse279
  • green house has two rooms; all of one and half of the other are filled with roses; they rest is other flowers and vegetables279
  • has African violets in the greenhouse284
  • rose room in the greenhouse has a dirt floor with a foot-high stone wall that raised the rosebush beds285

Asil Moreno|2 House

IA: Alpha & Omega Series #1: Cry Wolf
Location: N/A, Spain
Affiliated:
Asil Moreno
Sarai Deceased
Mariposa Deceased

Description
Cry Wolf

  • small, well made house, built for a warm climate120
  • has carefully tended orange trees by the door120
  • bench with clumsy jointing between two of the pieces that formed the back; positioned to catch the shade of the biggest orange tree when the sun was high in the sky120
  • the main room is half shop, half kitchen; the room should have looked utilitarian but with hanging baskets of plants and painted flowers on tiles in set in the floor it was welcoming120
  • cobbles laid by Asil outside the door to keep the mud at bay121

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Ben Shaw House

Ben Shaw House
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Redemption
Location:
Affiliated:
Ben Shaw

Description
Redemption

Bonarata Lair

Bonarata Lair
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #10: Silence Fallen
Location: Seattle, Washington
Affiliated:
Jacob Bonarata
Bonarata Architect

Description
Silence Fallen

  • building a home in Seattle271

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Dana Shea Houseboat

Dana Shea Houseboat
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #2: Hunting Ground
Location: Seattle, Washington
Affiliated:
Dana Shea Deceased

Description
Hunting Ground

  • in an area with 4 docks, the only boat secured to the fourth dock32
  • two story tall houseboat32
  • it looks like a miniature Victorian mansion, complete with gingerbread trim in every color of an ocean sunset: blue and orange, yellow and red
  • had a door, just like a real house36
  • paintings of butterflies and moths lined the hall37
  • the rooms on either side were small and cozy, decorated in purples, pinks, and blues – as if a team of Disney animators had come in and decorated it to make the perfect fairy abode
  • one room held an artificial waterfall that burbled with manic cheer; a twin-sized bed took up the rest of the space37
  • the hall emptied into a cozy kitchen and a narrow stairway lit by skylights and lined with flowering plants growing in various pink, powder blue, and lavender pots
  • at the top was a large room, one side entirely of glass that looked over the water; almost like a greenhouse but used as a studio37

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Elyna & Jack Apartment

Elyna & Jack Apartment
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Gray
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Affiliated:
Elyna O'Malley Gray
Jack O'Malley

Description
Gray

Estelle Lair

Estelle Lair
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #2: Blood Bound
Location: Pasco, Washington
Affiliated:
Estelle

Description

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Honey Jorgenson House

Honey Jorgenson House
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #8: Night Broken
Location: Finely, Washington
Affiliated:
Honey Jorgenson
Peter Jorgenson Deceased

Description
Night Broken

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Jitka House

Jitka House
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #10: Silence Fallen
Location: Dobrichovice, Czechia
Affiliated:
Jitka

Description

Joshua Family House

Joshua Family House
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Asil and the Not-Date
Location: Spokane, Washington
Affiliated:
Helen
Joshua
Joshua Baby Sister
Tabby
Wyrm HoarderDeceased

Description
Asil and the Not-Date

  • Victorian house—substantial two-story building218
  • on a street of similar Victorian houses; most of them were well tended, a few showing signs of being recently renovated; one boarded up with scaffolding lining the outer walls218
  • has good bones; had been in good shape sometime in the last decade218
  • paint was faded and peeling in places218
  • once-white picket fence was leaning and missing pieces218
  • girls' room is closer to the back door219
  • a set of wooden steps that rose about three feet to the only door in the back of the house; like the picket fence, there were missing boards here and there220
  • the window in the girls room is barred; and is about a square foot220
  • back door opens into the kitchen; full of garbage; hoarder221
  • girls' room is down the hallway to the right of the fridge222
  • compacted rubbish down the hallway; past two doorways222
  • hardwood floors222
  • another room beside the girls' room; door hidden by the garbage; not as packed as the rest of the house223
  • girls room is tiny223
  • outer entrance to the basement along the side of the house; historically for coal and ice deliveries226
  • the door was kept secure with a sturdy padlock and chain226
  • inner basement stairs were rubble227
  • a few garden implements hanging on the wall227
  • there was a doorway between the stairwell room and the next that was closed with a pair of old pallets228
  • old electrical system233
  • burned down in a fire233

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Kyle Brooks House

Kyle Brooks House
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: West Richland, Washington
Affiliated:
Kyle Brooks
Warren Smith
Zack Drummond

Description

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Leo James House

Leo James House
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #0.5: Alpha & Omega Novella
Location: Naperville, Illinois
Affiliated:
Isabelle Deceased
Leo James Deceased

Description

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Master Vampire Butte Lair

Master Vampire Butte Lair
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Fairy Gifts
Location: Butte, Montana
Affiliated:
Master Vampire Butte Deceased
Thomas Hao

Description
Fairy Gifts

Mid-Columbia Seethe Lair

Mid-Columbia Seethe Lair
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Kennewick, Washington
Affiliated:
Marsilia
Mid-Columbia Seethe

Description
Moon Called

  • road cut into the side of a hill that overlooked the town, and for thirty years, doctors, lawyers, and CEOs had been building their four-thousand-square-foot homes on the steeply sloped lots; the vampires had been there first163
  • end of the main street, a smaller gravel road broke off and cut between a pair of two-story brick edifices; looked almost like it might be a driveway but continued past the houses and into the undeveloped area behind them163
  • a quarter mile through usual eastern Washington scrub; then up over a small ridge that was just large enough to hide a two-story, sprawling hacienda surrounded by an eight-foot wall163
  • the road came down the hill and limited the view of the house through the double, wrought-iron gates163
  • the sweeping Spanish arches that graced the sides of the building disguised the scarcity of windows164
  • ground leveled for parking just outside the walls164
  • the front gates were large enough to drive a semi through them166
  • around the side is a small, open door in the wall for secondary access166
  • building is surrounded by undeveloped scrub outside the gates; the interior grounds were elaborate; the grass, dark and luxurious; roses in protected areas near the house, mums; formal French-style garden, organized beds and meticulous grooming166
  • gardens look odd next to the Spanish-style adobe167
  • grapevines lined the wall; bare in the winter167
  • cobbled path goes past a swimming pool around the corner of the house to a broad swath of lawn; across the lawn is a two-story guesthouse almost a third the size of the main house167
  • guesthouse has an entry hall decorated aggressively in the colors and textures of the American Southwest, complete with clay pots and kachina dolls167
  • the decor was overwhelmed by the smell of mostly unfamiliar flowers and herbs rather than the scents of the desert167
  • potpourri didn't disguise the smell of old leather and rotting fabrics167
  • past the entry hall through the soaring ceilings of a living room into the sitting room hall; half again the size of the biggest room in Mercy's trailer; cozy; not Southwest themed but the colors were still warm earth tones167
  • comfortable; soft fluffy furniture167
  • matching chairs; a love seat168
  • a large window dominated the room168
  • upright piano with a bench tucked into one corner of the room169
  • out of the sitting room through the house to an alcove sheltering a wrought-iron spiral staircase173
  • the stairway went deeper than a basement; small lights on the cement wall surrounded the stairs; they're motion lights; they allow one to see the stairs—travelling down a cement tube; lights not bright enough do more more173
  • fresh air wafted out of small vents that kept the air moving173
  • it goes down twenty five feet from the surface173
  • the stairway ended in a pad of cement; absolute darkness; smell of bleach173
  • motion sensitive fluorescent lights revealed a empty room with cement floors, walls and ceilings; sterile empty effect173
  • through the room and into a narrow tunnel that sloped gently upward; steel doors without knobs or handles lined the tunnel at even intervals; things moving behind the doors174
  • tunnel took a narrow turn, the floor became a steep upward set of twelve stairs that ended in a room with curved plaster walls, wooden floors, and soft lighting; directly opposite the stairway was mocha leather couch with curves that echoed the walls174
  • elevator hidden behind one of the doors in the corridor; leads to the main house
  • opens into a kitchen; bright lights and bird's-eye maple cabinetry, creamy stone countertops; no windows but a clever use of mirrors and backlit stained-glass panels to make up for the lack184
  • next to the refrigerator was an outside door that leads to the manicured lawn184
  • the houses are connected by tunnels184

Blood Bound

  • wrought-iron gates; brightly lit courtyard70
  • huge hacienda-style, adobe house; circular drive70
  • smaller guest house tucked into the backyard70
  • main house front door makes a curious groaning noise70
  • entry way; small sitting room it led into then down the hall; one side of the hall had three doors with arched tops, all closed, but the other side opened into a very large, airy room with a high ceiling and recessed lights71
  • walls cover with brightly colored paintings, some floor to ceiling71
  • walls painted a soft yellow; made it feel bright and cheerful even though no windows71
  • floor was made of dark clay tiles in a variety of reddish browns; light neutral-colored woven rugs scattered about almost at random71
  • three couches, five comfy-looking chairs; coral color southwestern feel, set in a loose semicircle around a large wooden chair Questioning Seat71

Milan Seethe Lair

Milan Seethe Lair
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #2: Blood Bound
Location: Milan, Italy
Affiliated:
Jacob Bonarata
Milan Seethe

Description

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Nadia Popov House

Nadia Popov House
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: In Red, with Pearls
Location: Richland, Washington
Affiliated:
Nadia Popov Deceased

Description
In Red, with Pearls

  • an F house in a sea of alphabet houses337
  • the government had done Richland a favor with all the World War II-era carbon-copy houses337
  • F houses were small, two-story, Federal-style houses that looked like the houses in a Monopoly game337
  • has a narrow, bumpy driveway337

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Rick Albright House

Rick Albright House
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Hollow
Location: Prosser, Washington
Affiliated:
Rick Albright

Description
Hollow

  • about an hour from Mercys Garage; along the Old Inland Empire Highway413

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Samuel&Ariana Cornick Condo

Samuel & Ariana Cornick Condo
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #7: Frost Burned
Location: Richland, Washington
Affiliated:
Ariana Cornick
Samuel Cornick

Description
Frost Burned

  • 20 minutes from Mercy's Garage29
  • right next to the river, where land prices were at a premium30
  • what he paid for the condo could have bough a huge house anywhere else in town30
  • complex less than ten years old, built of stone and stucco and groomed to within an inch of it's life30
  • has a garage30
  • front door is fiberglass30
  • walls were painted bright colors; the carpet was white32
  • open floor plan; kitchen, dining room, and living room shared the same space33
  • dark brown leather couch33
  • phone is on an end table next to the couch35
  • two story condo47
  • has a spare bedroom with an ensuite bathroom37
  • the windows in the living room have blinds49

Sean Nyelund House

Sean Nyelund House |
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: In Red, with Pearls
Location: West Pasco, Washington
Affiliated:
Sean Nyelund

Description
In Red, with Pearls

  • has a bunker, a secret room352
  • films sex scenes in it352
  • has guard dogs352

Stefan Uccello Lair

Stefan Uccello Lair
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Blood Bound
Location: Kennewick, Washington
Affiliated:
Stefan Uccello
Rachel
Ford

Description
Blood Bound

  • in the hills in Kennewick, in one of the newer subdivisions on the west side of Highway 395181
  • a big, sprawling brick house on a large lot with a circular drive, the kind of house that should have generations of children growing up in it181
  • surrounded by buildings with fake columns and two-story-high windows, it should have looked out of place181
  • window next to the door182
  • a butcher-block table; too large to fit in any rooms in Mercy's trailer; in center of the kitchen183
  • it has at least two tall stools to sit at183
  • industrial-sized coffee maker on the counter227

River Marked

  • streetlights out front03
  • has a front lawn03
  • in a ritzy neighborhood03
  • sidewalk to the front porch03
  • has a driveway; Mystery Machine parked there03
  • upright piano sat against the wall between the entryway and the living room07
  • entryway has flagstone floor07

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Thomas O'Donnell House

Thomas O'Donnell House |
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
Location: Kennewick, Washington
Affiliated:
Thomas O'Donnell Deceased

Description
Iron Kissed

  • lived in Kennewick just off Olympia in a modest-sized house with a neat yard in the front and an eight-foot white fence that enclosed the backyard68
  • one of the cinder block houses that were fairly common in the area
  • painted blue and had shutters but that didn't stop it from looking industrial
  • there is a washer and dryer just inside the back door69

Tim Milanovich House

Tim Milanovich House |
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
Location: West Richland, Washington
Affiliated:
Tim Milanovich Deceased

Description
Iron Kissed

  • a few miles from Kyle Brook House185
  • in a block so new that several houses didn't have lawns yet; two buildings under construction on the next block over185
  • half the front was beige brick and the rest was adobe the color of oatmeal185
  • it looked upscale and expensive185
  • carpeted staircase185
  • a large room upstairs; even with people in it, there was an unused air to the room as if everything had just come fresh from a furniture store187
  • the walls and Berber carpet were in the same color scheme as the house187
  • had no more personality than an apartment188
  • the room was uninspired but still nice; everything was good quality without being excessive188
  • one corner of the room had been set up as an office; there was a dorm-sized fridge next to a well-made, but not extravagant, oak computer desk188
  • the long wall opposite the door was dominated by a large TV with waist-high speakers on either side of it188
  • comfy-looking chairs and a couch, all upholstered with a medium brown microfiber designed to look like suede, were scattered in a manner appropriated to a home theater188
  • a small table next to the door190
  • through the house to the kitchen; the only room that seemed to have a personality239
  • dark gray granite counters with cherry cabinets; nothing too daring, but at least it wasn't bland239
  • oven timer is a chiming bell239
  • through the house to the dining room; big mahogany table240
  • a circular room surrounded by windows; the shape of the room was innovative, but it was outblanded by beige tiles and window treatments240
  • has an oak sideboard and the windows have roman blinds240
  • tableware; handmade stoneware plates that didn't match exactly, either in size or color, but somehow complemented each other and handmade pottery goblets; one blue with a cracked glaze finish and the other brown and aged looking240
  • doorway through the dining room; into the bedroom246
  • bedroom has a large oak entertainment center, but there was no TV on the shelf; instead there were two shoe boxes sitting on a bulky fur that looked like yak hide, except it was gray246

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Uncle Mike Trailer

Uncle Mike Trailer
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Location: West Richland, Washington
Affiliated:
Tim Milanovich Deceased

Description
Iron Kissed

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Walter Rice Cabin

Walter Rice Cabin |
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #1: Cry Wolf
Location: Near Baree Lake, Cabinet Mountains Montana
Affiliated:
Charles Cornick
Mariposa Deceased
Walter Rice Deceased

Description
Cry Wolf

  • Mariposa & her Guardian took over Walter's cabin in the fall
  • old forest-service cabin
  • small porch with old green paint peeling off
  • a small log cabin; the logs grayed by years of sun, rain, and snow; the forest crowded in behind
  • the cabin was backed up to the forest, with twenty feet cleared around the front and one side
  • inside, barely room for the narrow cot and small table that were the only furnishings
  • narrow ledge of a mantelpiece above the fireplace; cot was brand-new and still had sales tags on it
  • table looked like it was older than the cabin
  • hearth showed signs of a recent fire
  • plank floor had shiny new nails and crowbar marks where it had been pried up and nailed back in again
  • cot had a sleeping bag
  • destroyed by Charles Cornick doused with gasoline and lit on fire; exploded
  • magic and fire have an odd synergistic effect sometimes; almost nothing left of it, just a few rows of stone on the ground where the base of the fireplace had been; pieces of cabin were scattered, and the trees nearest the cabin had been splintered like toothpicks

Warren Smith House

Warren Smith House | Smith Blueprint
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Richland, Washington
Affiliated:
Kyle Brooks
Warren Smith

Description
Moon Called

  • half an A duplex with a big maple taking up most of his front lawn132

Blood Bound

  • has a college-student aura defined by lots of books and secondhand furniture59

Wharton Family House

Wharton Family House
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #4: Bone Crossed
Location: Spokane, Washington
Affiliated:
Amber WhartonDeceased
Chad Wharton
Corban Wharton

Description
Bone Crossed

  • a Victorian mansion complete with a pair of towers116
  • the brick porch had been freshly tuck-pointed, the gingerbread work around the roof edge and the windows bore a new coat of paint

Wulfe Lair

Wulfe Lair
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #2: Blood Bound
Location: Kennewick, Washington
Affiliated:
Bruce
Wulfe

Description

Night Broken

  • Wulfe's house was in a housing development that had been an orchard ten years ago. The houses in this one almost escaped that “we were all designed by the same architect and you can pick one of three house plans” sameness. It had been in place long enough for hedges and greenery, but not quite long enough for big trees.
  • The neighborhood was firmly middle-class, with mobile basketball hoops in front of the garage doors in driveways and swing sets in the backyards. The people who lived right next door to Wulfe had a giant cedar kid’s activity center—it was way too huge to be merely a swing set—and an aboveground swimming pool in their side yard. The side yard right next to Wulfe’s house264
  • Though it looked spotlessly clean, the interior of the house smelled265
  • 1950s chrome and green Formica kitchen tables. There were three chairs that matched the table: two of them were knocked over, and the third was tucked in where it belonged on the side of the table266
  • The light over the dining-room table was on, and someone had put daylight bulbs in the fixture because the tabletop looked more like an operating table than a place people might sit down and eat breakfast266

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Zee Adelbertsmiter House

Zee Adelbertsmiter House
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: , Washington
Affiliated:
Ghost Zee House
Tad Adelbertsmiter
Zee Adelbertsmiter

Description

Frost Burned

  • Less than a mile from Kennewick High School, a small Victorian198
  • House needed paint and a little work on the porch. The yard was tiny198
  • House and yard were surrounded by a wrought-iron fence that was suitably elaborate for an iron-kissed fae's home198
  • Furnished sparsely and none-too-fancily despite its Victorian appointments, which included the original light fixtures and fine woodwork. The living room had a matching couch and love seat that were comfortably worn. A small flat-screen TV adorned the wall between two build-in bookcases filled with paperback books. A handmade rug softened the hardwood floor198
  • To the right, a door opened to an eat-in kitchen that had a 1950's-style table for two that had passed shabby and hit antique. On the wall next to the table was a large photo of a serious, young-looking man who looked a lot like Tad. The man was dressed in a suit and standing next to a good-looking woman in a wedding dress with her brown hair in a poofy style common a couple of decades ago198
  • Typically Victorian narrow and steep stairs to the second story and from there to a hallway. At the end of the hall was a half door- two feet wide by three feet tall, the kind of door that would have hidden a linen closet or a dumbwaiter199
  • The room was narrow and long, wide enough, if barely, for three people to stand shoulder to shoulder. The floor was carpeted with layers of Persian rugs that were worth a not-so-small fortune203
  • Unmatched bookcases lined the wall on one of the long ways of the room, ranging from hand-carved museum pieces to boards separated by cinder blocks. The top two shelves of each held a selection of unpainted metal toys. The rest of the shelves were filled with various sharp=bladed weapons. The books, and there were a lot of them, were piled on the floor on the other side of the room. The wall directly across from the doorway was entirely covered by an enormous mirror203
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