Something (a tattered wardrobe) collapses in the adjacent room, wood and metal noisily crashing into the ground.

Still concealed, Laughs peeks his head around the corner from that bedroom, trying to gauge how this guy will react. Haunted houses weren't his idea originally, but once Ilka brought it up, he picked up on them quickly. You can gauge a lot about the reactions that a person will have to a number of things.