Calixto stared at Iris back, hurriedly retreating to the basement. He was not mad at her for roaming around the mansion. He would be glad if she would get comfortable in this house since she grew up in this mansion but was stuck in the basement. He understood Theo's thinking because he was doing the same. The basement is the safest place in this house for her—safest significantly when the night fell but not totally safe. Someone powerful enough could pass through the incantation and spells that were written in secrets on the basement walls.
He heaved a sigh, Augustus had good thinking for teaching his son that the part of the safest mansion was the basement because it was where his body was laid in slumber. He had no idea who put those spells on the basement walls and Augustus and his son and his son did not put the information in the diary that he had asked them to keep.
