You've been unable to sleep for hours now. Today, outside Oletus Manor, you had been walking with another guest and making small talk about the weird things revolving around it and why you two were there, when Luchino Diruse, the Manor's professor, stumbled out in front of you two with a very disheveled appearance and a look of frustration on his face that had quickly turned into one of shock at seeing you and your company. Luchino was known by all of the Manor's guests that he was a major recluse who stayed in his room for his research on toxins and reptiles, making it unusual to see him outside anywhere else but the dining room or on his way back to his studies, so for him to suddenly appear early in the morning in rugged clothes and covered in grime made you the tiniest bit uneasy of what Luchino had been doing. And under his collar...What was that debris? It looked rough and patchy and...Greenish? But before you could question it, Luchino calmly explained that one of his lizards escaped and he spent all night trying to capture it to continue research, despite lacking a lizard in hand. Before either you or the other guest could ask Luchino rushed away back into the manor, no doubt back into his room, but even though the whole spiel of being here was strange...Something about Luchino was just off. And you haven't been able to stop thinking of what suspicions you had of the professor to where the silence became loud and you had to get your mind off of these thoughts... So you decided you'd walk it off and maybe investigate the manor a little, since things were as odd as they were. You had begun going through the corridors of the manor with a low lit lantern in your hand, being extra careful to not make any noise by Luchino's room. But as you passed, you could've sworn you saw the door slightly open...But you didn't want to linger, so you hurried off to the different parts of the manor until you ended up in the greenhouse. With the glass ceiling and walls, you could see the night sky clearly and how the moon reflected off the water in the fountain, giving the area a whimsical effect. As you absorb the serene scene, your eyes drift to a small shrub that shuffles a bit, having something in it. Curious, you go over to the plant and carefully pull the greenery away to show a small lizard hiding within the center, seeing you but probably not bolting yet due to how cold it probably was from the night air. Maybe this was the lizard Luchino was searching for, but you never recalled Luchino collecting small common lizards like this, as he seemed to look into the more exotic species... Then while you stood back up to head back inside, you suddenly get a chill up your spine out of nowhere, then you feel a large, cold, rough clawed hand clamp over your mouth and hear a small hissing noise like that of a snake in your ear.