For the time being, Arkisz wouldn't be able to sense much due to the stone walls of the tower acting as a barrier to his spell. The wooden door wasn't thick enough to block the spell though, and through it Arkisz could sense the ambient magics that were usually found in an arcane laboratory. Although since the presence of the laboratory had already been discovered by Aura's hawk, that wouldn't be what drew Arkisz's attention the most. That would be the dimming embers of magic he sensed from the lifeless corpses of the two strangers who had been guarding the door. From what Arkisz could sense, the two strangers had some sort of abjuration spell about them. But whatever had been protecting them, it was like no spell Arkisz had encountered before. It held a weird sort of quality to it. But that was all Arkisz could glean from the dead. A moment later, the last remnants of the magic that had affected them faded away. Any further knowledge would have to be gained from the strangers who still lived.

As Arkisz shifted his focus away from his magical senses and back to those that were more mundane, he would find that sound could be heard through the door. Strangely enough, the sounds that could be heard from within weren't those of a frantic scramble to prepare a defense that one might expect to hear when signs of an impending attack are discovered. Rather, it sounded like everything was still business as usual in the tower. Like they had just taken one look at the corpses outside, shrugged, and just carried on with their work as if nothing out of the ordinary had occurred.