[They're going to be in trouble if it doesn't open. It's possible it won't; Dracula seems to have influence over this house, of course, and so who knows what he might have done or not done in the course of commanding it.
She sets her hand on the handle, then pulls it back in a flash when an unexpected heat sears against her palm, like touching the knob of a door with fire behind it.]
Ouch!
[So, then, there are two possibilities here. Either there's an actual fire outside of this door, or someone is jacking around with the spells on this bizarre two-houses-in-one-house, and it's resulting in...this.
The sad thing is, either is a likely possibility.]
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She sets her hand on the handle, then pulls it back in a flash when an unexpected heat sears against her palm, like touching the knob of a door with fire behind it.]
Ouch!
[So, then, there are two possibilities here. Either there's an actual fire outside of this door, or someone is jacking around with the spells on this bizarre two-houses-in-one-house, and it's resulting in...this.
The sad thing is, either is a likely possibility.]
It burns, to the touch...