"Copy that," she replied, before making her own way cautiously up to the higher levels of the barn-house. Cat and lizard followed at her heels, unconcerned by the steps, and Lela eagerly bounced away to nose her way through open doors and into unoccupied bedrooms.

Carolina didn't have many knicknacks herself, but more due to circumstance than choice. Anything she'd had that wasn't somewhere on a distant world in UNSC storage was long gone with the crash of a certain ship, save for a lighter kept in a compartment within her armor. (She'd worried, briefly, when it seemed to have vanished on arriving in Ponyville, but it reappeared immediately when she returned to Twilight Town.)

Two rooms later --one intended for a child, the other for an older adult-- and she poked her head over the bannister, calling down. "Nothing here so far!"