Lucien shrugged. It didn't seem like there were any aristocrats present. (If this were a mystery novel, he'd start looking for clever puns based off surnames and occupations, but this was real life. He needed to be serious.) He remembered the painting in the dining room, and the scratched-up plaque. "I'm going to go pay a visit to the dining room." He wanted to get a look behind that painting.
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“[Brenda turned to look at the woman’s portrait. The woman had a lovely and warm smile. Brenda found herself smiling— who is this lovely lady?]”
“Hearing Lucien read the note out loud, Byakuya begins to call upon his memory of the house to remember if there were any paintings in the house depicting royalty or something similar.”
“Only comes back from the sitting room in time to hear something about a noble. "If it's not a guest, wouldn't it be an object? Like, um-- a paiting, or a statue? Is there anything around here that stands out as being a kind of noble?"
No paintings depicted any form of royalty in the manor--most of them were either of landscapes or Walker himself. Though Walker always did look strangely at the painting of the woman...
Brenda watches as Lucien pushes and pulls at the painting, and eventually both she and Hershel go to help him--
CRASH!
The massive painting was just too much for three people--it crash right down onto them, pinning all three of them to the ground. Servants scream and rush to try and push the painting off of them.
In the wall behind the painting is a silver safe. There’s no key to this one: it’s a code.
[Safe] added to Evidence.