A delay, at least ten minutes. He searches the place. He knows it well.
He finds something that delays him another ten minutes.
Crack.]
Somebody's been in there. Maybe more than one, lot of things are moved around, there's some things left that aren't ours. Old scents of people I don't know. Some animal I don't know... not a dog. Not any of us. Big lizard, maybe. Smells kind of metal-y.
And there's a big blood stain too. Old, by the smell of it. I don't know how old. Got to be at least a year, two, or more. Smells kind of familiar, not sure Not any of ours, I know what we smell like, I should think. Nobody who bled that much made it.
And it's all over with dust. A lot of dust. Somebody's been in there, but not recently. I don't understand it.