"Oh no, your soup is wonderful," Cindy said, smiling up at him. Never mind that the heebie-jeebies from today's discovery were coming home to roost just now, the soup was brilliant. "Nah, the basements around here -- we found something nasty in the one of the place I'm renovating at the moment."
"I think that's exactly how old they are," Andras said. "I think there's a connection, too -- the Temmincks have been living on the 14th floor of the Manor for ages. That's the Olympus; the boss of the TA himself lives at the end of the corridor."