When the two reached the family room, Connie headed to the bookshelf, but stopped before doing anything.
"Now, you are to tell no one of this passage, only three people know of it so far; Jake, Me, and now you." She paused and gave him a hard stare, getting her point across. "I have no trust in you at all, but since you will be living here, I'm bound to go in here sometime. I find i have to tell you about it now, so you don't do anything stupid." She finished, watching his face and expressions closely.
"You do realize I wouldn't have known how to get in." Replied Altair, curious to see what would happen to the bookshelf.
"Oh trust me, that's true. But, if you watched enough times you would be able to guess." Answered Connie, before reaching for two different books apart from each other with both hands. Once she had them, she pulled them at the same time, resulting in the bookshelf snapping from being unlocked.
She grabbed a hold of the shelf, before pulling it open and continuing her explanation. "Also, if someone were to pull all the books off at the same time it still wouldn't work, as the difference in weight would issue it to lock further." Finished Connie, before walking into the small room with one computer.
There was hardly anything in the small room; there was only a desk, a chair, a rug, the computer, the chest under the desk, and a small bookshelf. Altair questioned the shelf again, thinking it to be another passage. The room was also rather gloomy, as it was dark and only had a small light at the top of its narrow ceiling. Had the door not been open, it would have been fairly dark.
"What is this room used for?" asked Altair curious, watching Connie as she walked over to the shelf.
"Well, it's basically my security room, I can watch everything that happens in my house from here, and I haven't gone in here since you've been here so ya..." she turned to look at him, then looked away. "But it also leads to something else... and it's not behind this bookshelf." She continued a little amused, while point to the shelf.
Then Connie started looking through the books. "Which one was it again..., a-ha!" she pulled out a blue book, and opened the pages. There was a section of the book missing, and inside there was a key.
"What's that for?" asked Altair impressed with all her hidden things.
"It's to open this." She said before going down on her knees and pulling the rug out of the way in the far corner, her dark hair draping in front of her face. Altair stared at her for a second, before focusing on what she was doing again.
When the rug was out of the way, it revealed a trap door with a lock on it; she opened it with the key, before lifting it up.
"This leads to a few rooms, and I wasn't able to come down here yesterday because the power was out, and its own ventilation system was not on, meaning no air." she finished before going down into the hole, using the ladder.
Altair watched her go down, not wanting to himself. "Come on!" echoed the woman's voice from below. Not wanting to fall behind he quickly followed after her.
When Altair was halfway down a light went on, he looked down to see Connie on the ground near another one of those light switches. Had Altair been any average person, he probably would have been frightened from the height of this latter. He was an assassin though, and this height was nothing to him. Dropping and sliding the rest of the way down to Connie, he watched her go to another door.
The room at the bottom of the ladder was small, smaller than the room above them. It was empty, and only had two doors around, while the walls where a grey colour. The room was oddly cold, and the vent blowing air in the side of the wall didn't help.
