d indigo and t against today’s cloudless blue tself.

    A barrier stretctaco it ice. Danger. Keep Out. Noticing a join in tions  lodged togeted a panel, slipped inside and pulled it to behind me.

    Skirting to t of t and second bays, six broad, loeps led up to a paneled double door. teps als, on  cats carved out of some dark, poliserial. tions of tomy , running my fingers over one, I ed fur, artled by tone.

    It   fire-staining. Percall enougo peer inside.  I sa to bloom in my c. to all, in t of a room. t my parents’  Miss inter’s are all very different, tain elements, elements t remain constant in all places and for all people. Even a temporary encampment o protect it from ts, space for a person to enter, move about, and leave, and somet permits you to distinguisside. .

    Beams  one end only so t t to rest on tinguiserial t filled to ts   seeds; snoer branc. Like a pattern on o a dark tunnel. Four tall ill intact, but instead of seeing a ceiling, I say space before anot tunnel was lighe sky.

    Not even a g could survive here.

    It  impossible to t once tings. C up ed by t  been, this room? A drawing room, a music room, a dining room?

    I squinted at tuff  of tuff t  my eye. I aken it at first for a  it  t appeared to taco t regular intervals, to s in ttac rig, tions ill present.

    Knoingled in my spine.

    ture and ure was a library.

    In a moment I he glassless window.

    Carefully I made my esting my footing at every step