This choice: Up the grand staircase, to look for bedroom which could hold residance names. • Go Back...Chapter #5Up the grand staircase, to look for a bedroom by: Doctor004   Anna decides to start by looking for a bedroom. She climbs the grand staircase which creaks loudly at every step. At the top is a door which she easily pushes through to find herself in a pentagonal room. There is a room at each side, one of the sides being the door she just came through. All the doors are open. She browses through the 4 other room. In the first room, she finds a medium size room with a double bed and bare walls. Second one, has a king size bed with a candelabra on a bedside table. There is a dresser covered in dust beneath a small cracked open window. She decides to enter the second one. She looks around and opens the top draw in the bedside table. It contains a scroll and two other worn pieces of paper. She takes the scroll out and delicately unrolls it. It turns out to be the McGowan family tree. Anna spies Gideon McGowan and Agnes. As she was aware, Gideon had 3 children. There names were Homer, Felix, and Easter. Easter had married someone called Howard Phillips. Phillips became Easter's last name, and she and Howard had a son named Herbert. Anna notes that Howard's parents aren't on it, though it is the "McGowan" family. Next to each name she can see a date. Gideon had a 1819 CE next to it, Herbert had a 1866 CE. Gideon's parents had two dates, his father, Horace, being 1796 CE - 1837 CE and his mother, Priscilla, being 1798 CE - 1838 CE. However, neither Gideon, his wife, nor any of their descendants had second dates. Although Howard Phillips had two dates, 1845 CE - 1876 CE. She rolls it up and puts it aside, picking up the next piece of paper. It's the plan for the 2nd floor of the house. She can see the pentagonal room and the bedrooms off of it. All the bedrooms are roughly the same size, although the one she is in is slightly larger than the others. Written in small writing at the bottom, says Building Plan Part III. Parts I and II below. She wonders to herself, "Part III? I'm on the second floor, how is it part III? Why not part II? And the rest of the drawer is empty? Where is part I and II? Shouldn't the first and second part
be beneath Part III in the drawer." She feels the bottom of the drawer to see if there is a fake floor, there isn't. She opens second and bottom drawer, which is empty and doesn't have a fake floor either. She looks under the bedside table, a spider comes out from underneath it and Anna jumps on to the bed, startled. The spider goes under the bed. She bends off the bed and looks under the bedside table, also nothing. She falls back on the bed and thinks about what she has found. She has the family tree which gives her the names of the family, but not much else. It tells her that they all must have dead close to the same time if no one was left alive to put in their dates of death. The latest date on it is Howard's death in 1876. No one was left alive by 1914, a good 40 year gap. She wonders what happened to Howard. She thinks about the building plan, she has only part III. She needs to decide what her next move is. Should she look for a diary in the other bedrooms for answers? Or search for part I and II of the building plan?   indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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