[The Norkari Mtns.] Chalet du Sommet Minuit

The door opens  into a large room with a high vaulted ceiling. A freestanding fireplace and multiple couches, chairs, and tables furnish the room; thick fur rugs line the floor in strategic places. The hues of the oak and cedar boards paneling the room are darker than in the rest of the chalet, but lighter by several shades than the mahogany and dark oak scheme of the Midnight Sun. The walls are tastefully adorned with paintings. In one corner of the room sits an unusual furnishing - a tree.

A quarter of the top portion of a mighty oak, where the branches start, has been felled, trimmed, treated, and placed in the corner. Thick limbs, stripped of bark and cured, run into the room, rising and spreading to meet the angles of the ceiling, where they are continued in a masterful mural depicting a view of the night sky from under a bare-limbed tree. Several forks and some of the more horizontal branches look like they would be particularly well suited to sitting on. Small magical lamps hang on strings draped among the branches, glowing and twinkling like little stars.

There are five doors in the walls of this central room - three on the left wall, as viewed from the door, one on the right, and one on the far wall.

The door in the right wall leads to the study. A line of windows along the far wall overlooks the lake and lets natural light into the room. Under the windows and continuing around the left wall of the room runs a single desk, books littered sporadically on its surface. The proper home of those books is with many of their fellows on the set of bookshelves running part of the right wall, next to a set of organizer shelves and boxes. A circular stand-alone fireplace occupies the middle of the room, along with several exceptionally comfortable-looking armchairs, two circular tables, and dark red upholstered chairs to go with them. Luxurious carpet covers the floor. The whole atmosphere is cozy and inviting, the perfect place to curl up with a book and watch the snow fall outside.

The door in the far end of the common room leads to the bedroom, which is dominated by a large four-poster bed, hung with red velvet curtains, that could easily fit four people. In the middle of the back wall, a large bay window, the shelf of which is large enough to sit in comfortably, provides a stunning panoramic view of the mountains, forest, and lake. The window is flanked on either side by a small fireplace flattening the corner of the room. The rich carpet from the study is duplicated in the bedroom. Paintings of various sizes adorn the walls, with the exception of one conspicuously bare spot. A small bookshelf, a table and two chairs, a wardrobe, and a dresser complete the room’s furnishings.

A door in the right wall of the bedroom leads to the bathroom. Done primarily in blue slate with dark paneled walls, the main feature of the bathroom is a tub that’s very nearly large enough to swim in.

There is a door in the right wall of the bedroom which is currently locked, although no keyhole is visible.