from Gemma R

These shoes, incongruously placed in a display cabinet. The text on the torn paper reads, “I know the truth, How evanescent is the flower of youth?”. Whose shoes are they??


The book in the nook.
Bookmarked with a slip of paper reading “first he doesn’t exist, then he vanishes”.
The book’s text has been blacked out, except for certain phrases. These add together to read:
“Tension and strain
Half dormant still
Light, with shadow instantly behind,
The real and the fantasy,
She heard it prompting them to speech,
Whispered
And years beneath an uneventful sky,
Secret and gradual,
Every one was waiting for the word
Stirred in the light with little flames of silver.”

Shadows and whispers, eh?




The hole in the ceiling, where Jenny heard her name whispered.
It was very shadowy in there. But where does it lead?


Purple light on the stairwell near the nook with the book. Casting interesting shadows. Why such a strange pattern of light and shade? Are the shadows trying to spell something out for us?