The Main Hall

The entrance hall of a crooked house at night: a wooden staircase curving up from the left wall to a balcony that runs along the back and right, two doors beneath the balcony on the right, and a locked back door at the far end

The front door was open. You go in.

Nobody comes to see who it is.

An oil painting of a stern ancestor,hanging in a slightly crooked frame in the hall

A worn brown boot with a burn scorched through the toe

An antique bronze combination padlock hanging on the garden door

Notebook

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Four wheels. Turn them.

Try it

Step back

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