Lares heads outside and sees a variety of people, a few children but the vast majority are between 10 and 25, leaning heavily to the middle. Skin colors range from european mediterranean to a dark olive to a very dark brown, and they seem to be divided by styles of dress as well. Except of course for the wooden people, whom he realizes are not just statues when someone talks to one of the figures and it follows them. In the center of everything is a geyser spraying water up into the air where it does not fall down but evaporates instantly, and at one end of the town is a set of animal pens with fantastic beasts you have never seen before, something that is a mix of lion, hippo, and crocodile, a sphinx you have at least heard legends of, and what appears to be a truly massive black unicorn with armored plates for skin walking out of one of the pens, a woman in her early twenties seems to be heading towards the unicorn.
Silas- there is no lab equipment in the kitchen, the lab is in another room.
Zarkut finds nothing written in basque.
Okennetis finds much the same scene as is described for Lares, except of course for the fact that she is the woman headed for the "unicorn".
The voice answers Aetherius "No, I'm not a spirit, I'm an Ibis. Water bird. Which right now is lacking in the water. And the only way I could have brought you here is if you are rather small and possibly tasty. What door are you talking about?" You exit the house to much teh same scene as the other two, except that you also spot a long legged bird nearby.
all the paintings look like your skill improved significantly before you made them. The sprite bobs over a mountain landscape "This is the first, of these at least, you had earlier works you gave away, you painted this one in the alps after studying in Paris, the next you created from a studio in your old covenant, from your imagination" the second depicts a scene of pigs dancing while storks sit in chairs watching. "That spawned some interesting stories, and faeries to go with them, let me tell you! Then there's..." she seems to know the exact history of the first 19 paintings, then falls quiet.