As they continued along the narrow hall towards one of the farther rooms which they hadn't yet went into, the bugs within his jar started to go berserk. Constantly slamming their entirety with all their little bug-might at the glass walling of their home. The lights emanating from their abdomens were unstable flickering on and off like a kid was playing with the light switch. Shadows lurked the halls and the atmosphere in the home instantly felt ten times cooler than before. Though he could quite see the Midnight Man, he could definitely feel the demon's presence around him and it appeared that the puny bugs did too. Dark outlines stalked here and there, but he forced himself to think that they were nothing, certainly not the Midnight Man. A mode of denial was always the best method to get through tough times such as these. 

Upon entering one of the rooms at the end of the hall, they walked into a room which looked like it could've been a child's bedroom in the past. Toys were placed around the room and a small bed in the middle confirmed their assumptions. Jasper strolled right in and headed for the kid's dresser, digging through the thing like she was mining for gold. Her determination was rather admirable and Lesley soon followed suite as he reached out and yanked on a box flap. Peering into the large carton, he sifted through many toys, but nothing that looked like a sword.

Harper struck up conversation to ease the tension and Lesley happily replied. "Before getting onto the train, I was supposed to go to an audition to get into an art school. A very prestigious one at that. The train tempted me with the letter of acceptance I would've gotten anyway... if I hadn't stepped into the darned thing in the first place." The thought that he could be happily pursuing his dreams back home, but instead he was stuck in some whimsical realm full of dangers irritated him immensely. Life was so unfair. Nowhere was becoming more real and deadly to him with every passing moment. No longer was it the land of ice-cream and rainbows, but a death trap. And the humans and himself were all stuck there under the rule of the Queen. If she wanted these items so much, why could she hire someone else to do it. She was the Queen after all. Why count on rookie humans to go out and find things for you when you could be getting those items much faster if you had just hired someone like Songbird, but a whole army of Songbird's?

Something was fishy. Definitely fishy...