the bell is a lot bigger than you're probably imagining, and the rats aren't meant to be as big as their sprites suggest, that's just what was available to me. also the rats are specifically meant to get ser's level up a little bit (as are the enemies in the first ""dungeon"" but that's also for uo)
and i'm purposefully being vague about ser's age. mainly bc they don't have a 100% complete grasp on the concept of time passing and don't know how old they are. people just call them kid or child so they're like "well i guess that's my age??" i didn't just wanna cop-out with a "???" like i did for uo