Is there any other reason to drill the ice with an auger other than fishing?
And how long he's gonna put aside that question about the room (yeah-yeah, until the last chapter, and that's if we are lucky)?
@knecht yeah these are all to tempt him into crossing that threshold (windowsill), and getting devoured or something. He'd probably get lost to wherever all her room gimmicks come from.
Her apartment connects to the ocean, and is custom-built and she inherited millions and millions so she can just charge cheap prices to the cutey businessman and no one else