In a clearing by the roadside, set into the grey rock of a small cliff face, Erin had found a door. She had been walking this route, one she had stepped down countless times over the years, but she had never noticed this door before. It was dark brown wood, polished to a sheen, with an ornate metal handle. It stood out from the dreary, dusty rocks and the dewy, mist-strewn forest like a beacon.
It was quite the most interesting thing she'd seen all week.
Despite the call of the next in the endless line of doomed souls, The dullahan stepped closer, running one gauntleted hand over the doorway as she looked up at it. "How intriguing..." She murmured to herself, trying the handle. To her delight, it was unlocked, and she slowly pushed it open to reveal a hallway, with wooden floorboards and painted walls, and the soft murmur of voices drifting from somewhere deeper in.
There was no way she could pass this opportunity up. She would just have a quick look, then be on her way again. The dullahan stepped into the hallway, turning her head in her hands to look either way. It seemed to be a house, pretty standard-looking as far as she could tell. Tucking her head under her arm, in its usual spot, she walked towards the sound of voices. Unbeknownst to her, the door silently swung shut and latched...
Erin appeared at the top of the stairs and looked down at the scene. The dullahan had a sense for souls, and she could feel something different about those below. Not a mundane dwelling, then. In fact, only one of the figures below was human. One was a beast of some sort, the other two more humanoid. There was something familiar about the red-haired woman, although she couldn't really place what it was exactly. Clad in sinister-looking black armour, with the hilt of a massive sword sticking out over one shoulder, the new arrival would have been an imposing sight even without the flickering blue flame where her head should be, her actual face peering down from under one arm. She didn't say anything, accustomed to being invisible among other creatures, simply watching curiously.