Bedroom

A neglected attic bedroom in a crooked manor house at night, with a carved four-poster bed on the left, a moonlit arched window in the centre, and a heavy wardrobe on the right

A nest of mismatched odd socks with a round hollow pressed into the middle, scorched and burned through at its centre

Odd the gaunt sock goblin grinning too widely as he peers out from under the bed, half-buried in his pile of socks

Six! She’s brought me six socks in twenty minutes. Best day of my life.

socks delivered — 6

Sort the eerie many-eyed spider leaning out of the closet holding a folded jumper

Six socks. Gone. In twenty minutes. Somebody in this house is running an operation.

Searched

Odd the sock goblin

Sort the closet spider

Notebook

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An oil painting of a stern ancestor in a crooked frame

There is a burn in the middle of the sock nest. Something warm sleeps here, and it isn’t the goblin.

Back down to the hall

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Click to let him get back to sulking.

Your notebook

You have written nothing down. In your defence, you’ve only just arrived.

Numbers

Nothing yet.

Things that don’t add up

Nothing yet.

Shut it