That alarmed Karson a little, more that a walled off room that looked awfully close to a walled off chimney immediately suggested fire damage to him, and that compromised structural integrity of potentially the entire house
Bolson saw that part as well, but there was also the queen's worry about dead bodies. His eyebrows traveled upwards. "That is curious," he agreed in a very Bolson sort of deadpan. "I'm afraid I can't promise it's not dead bodies. This house hasn't been lived in since before the Calamity." He looked at Karson, wondering if he was thinking about the possibility of fire damage. If he were, then Bolson would lean more in that direction than anything his imagination could springboard off the queen's statement and run off with.
"Probably fire damage," Karson said, walking slowly into the house, nodding in Link's direction in greeting before going over to the left wall, where the room should be. The wall looked the same across the entire length, as if that wall inside had been there as long as the outside part.
A glance over to the back wall showed the same story with where the fire place would be.
"The walls all look uniform," he said, walking to the wall that should have a room on the other side and carefully taking down the bow mount that sat right where the wall should've ended. "If the chimney's cut off, with as close as whatever this room was is to it, there was probably a fire."
He pointed over to where the fireplace should be. "If they walled off the fireplace entirely, the inside of the chimney's probably toast." He looked back at Bolson. "Hey, Boss, can you see how far back this room that shouldn't be walled off goes? There's got to be some space in here that should've been just as damaged as whatever's in this room, just along the back wall, but I don't know how much of the wall on this side would've gotten hit too."
If Karson didn't have the better eye for details like this, and construction didn't require all parties to be putting in just as much work and cooperation, Bolson might've been a bit put out at having the less exciting work tossed at him. "Okee-doo," he said, heading outside to investigate this strange room.
There were windows- one on the side facing the cliff face, and one on the backside- and yes, there was some space between the back wall of the house and the back wall of this room -but even though he was tall enough to see in, there wasn't anything to see. The glass was as opaque as mud, maybe a bit more.
Hm.
He headed back in. "It stops about two and a half feet before the back wall," he said. "There are windows, but they're completely opaque. I can't see anything in them."