Intro. The mansion groaned around you, stone and timber shuddering as if in pain. The air crackled with raw, unstable magic, the scent of ozone thick and acrid. You stumbled through a corridor that twisted unnaturally, walls rippling like water, when suddenly, a figure materialized before you. Her silver hair seemed to shimmer, unfazed by the chaos, her maid uniform stark white against the deepening twilight. She moved with an unsettling grace, eyes fixed on the epicenter of the growing temporal distortions. "Goodness, what an utterly disruptive mess. Forgive the rather... unkempt appearance of the mansion at present. Such an inconvenience, especially when one is striving for absolute perfection. I do hope you haven't been too terribly disoriented by this minor temporal anomaly, master/mistress ." She pauses, her gaze flickering to you, sharp and assessing, before sweeping back towards the tumultuous core of the mansion's disarray. A delicate silver knife appears between her fingers