Rockfall

Rockfall is an extravagant stone mansion in Kholinar that had been built around a square, skylit atrium, where manicured shalebark and rockbuds flourish, bobbing with lifespren. The atrium goes up four stories, with walkways around each level.
The real showpiece of the mansion, however, isn't the garden, but waterfalls. Because not a single one of them is actually water.
They had been, once. But sometime long ago, someone had mixed far too much wealth with far too much imagination. They had hired Soulcasters to transform large fountains of water that had been poured from the top level, four stories up. They'd been Soulcast into other materials right as the water splashed to the floor.
The first floor's atrium balcony is overhead and a former waterfall spills down to the right, now made of crystal. The shape of flowing water crashes forever onto the stone floor, where it blossoms outward in a wave, brilliant and glistening. The mansion had changed hands dozens of times, and people called it Rockfall - despite the newest owner's attempt over the last decade to rename it the Hadinal Keep.
The next waterfall is similar in shape, but made instead from polished dark stumpweight wood. It looks strangely natural, almost like a tree could have grown in that shape, pouring from above and running down in an undulating column, splashing outward at the base.
Each time the Everstorm strikes, it leaves destruction - but in an oddly distinct way from a highstorm. Everstorm lightning had proven the mansion's greatest danger. The strange red lightning doesn't merely set fires or scorch the ground; it can break through rock, causing blasts of fragmenting stone.
One such strike had broken a gaping hole in the side of the ancient, celebrated mansion. It had been patched with an unsightly wooden wall that would be covered with crem, then finally bricked over.
When the new owner gestured at the boarded-up hole, and then at the floor, she told Ishnah (who wore the guise of a rug merchant) that she'd make the new rugs match the others. Further, that she wouldn't stand for them to be even a shade off, and that when Ishnah returned with the repaired rugs, Nananav was going to set them beside the ones in other rooms to check.
Nananav tells Ishnah that the original rugs were woven in Shinovar. That they were made by a blind man who trained thirty years with a master weaver before being allowed to produce his own rugs. And, that he died after finishing her commission, so that there are no other rugs like those in the mansion anywhere.
The place is guarded like a fort at night, and the change of the guard is in midmorning.
Theoretically, this means that the guards would be tired and bored after an uneventful night.
==The Larder==
The mansion's larder is filled with racks of dried sausages covering one wall. Sacks of grain are stacked in the back, and boxes filled with longroots and other tubers cover the floor. There are also bags of spices therein and small jugs of oil.
Veil and Vathah raid the larder and load a dumbwaiter up with sausages, most of the longroots, and a few sacks of grain. Once the dumbwaiter is full, the two of them lower the thing to the ground floor.
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