Re: Audrey's house: Hugh & Rafe
At this point, a revelation that the man next to him was a werewolf might officially get a shrug. So far, if you ran through his list of friends made in Repose you had AI, vampire, and wizard. And then there was Dietre's ability to see ghosts, and... what had kept Atticus on the island, the unusual seemed more usual than not, case in point - the house in front of them.
He stepped into the yard, his eyes glancing around the yard not unlike Rafe's. Hugh was decently observant and those skills were typically directed towards human beings as that tended to be something that came in handy in his own work and also generally in succeeding socially within an environment, but he had a good eye for set details as well. It was one that had been honed in his more recent film work to practice in surveying a set looking for things that could be used within a scene, which meant, he noted some of the same things Rafe had. Things looked as they would for a normal scene, no sign of any struggle or rush, nothing that suggested that someone had been back there that shouldn't have been. He hadn't seen it in the light, but nothing here seemed other than what he would have anticipated.
Hugh reached in his pocket for the key. There still lingered some anxiety about what they'd find in the house, but he'd focused some of that energy into the task in front of him. "I'm sure it opens the front door," Hugh nodded. "Hannah didn't say if it was a master, but let's go in through the front. If she is here, that'll be less startling probably."
He went back towards the gate so they could walk down the drive back around to the front of the yard and this time Hugh led up the front steps to the door since he had the key. The front porch looked mostly the same as the last time he'd seen it. There were small differences of course - some of the furniture had been moved, but no more than one would expect from normal use. No footprints, no broken glass, just the welcome mat, and a porch that looked inviting to sit down with a cup of tea and a script. He should check to see if it even was locked, he realized, so he dropped the hand with the key to instead reach out and try the door handle, which clicked open.
Hugh frowned, glancing back at Rafe. "It's open," he remarked, probably unnecessarily. "She locked it before. Maybe she's here?" That felt like the only reasonable explanation because Hugh was pretty certain Audrey wouldn't have come, and then left again and left it unlocked.