"Well, I think she... he... I think they did," Kiri nodded, "but, er, well, if this office was empty when you got here, I guess there wasn't anything left." An idea occurred to her. It was a very weird one, and really, no way could it be true, but Professor Duskurk's short and secretive commands might have played their part in prodding Kiri into this frame of mind. "You don't think there could be, you know, a secret compartment in the walls or something?" she asked, brow furrowed.

She glanced around. Most, probably all of the furniture was obviously new and belonging to Professor Svensson. When Professor Truebridge still inhabited this office (oh, how Kiri wished she could talk to him, he was a few steps closer to Professor Duskurk on the creepy-and-dangerous scale than the good-natured, friendly Professor Svensson) it had been filled with old cabinets and shelves, full of the curios he had collected on his travels. Now, the shelves were a light blue, and in-between rows of books stood model train cars.

But there wasn't anything visible in the walls. Of course, just because one casual look around didn't uncover a secret compartment didn't mean it wasn't there, but Kiri didn't particularly feel like turning the office upside down, even with Professor Svensson's permission and help. More for the look of the thing, Kiri got up anyway and began wandering around the room.