and a roof which had aspirations of grandeur, with intricate details
and a grand-looking clock on the front gable, with black-painted Roman numerals and its hands pointing to midnight.
Tall dark arched windows, framed with stone bricks, punctuated the front wall, equidistant from each other.
When she first looked it seemed there were only four windows, but a moment later there were definitely five of them.
She thought she must have miscounted. As there was nothing else around, and since she had nowhere else to be, Nora stepped cautiously towards it.
She looked at the digital display of her watch. 00:00:00 Midnight, as the clock had told her.
She waited for the next second to arrive, but it didn’t.
Even as she walked closer to the building, even as she opened the wooden door,
even as she stepped inside, the display didn’t change.
Either something was wrong with her watch, or something was wrong with time. In the circumstances, it could have been either.
What’s happening? she wondered. What the hell is going on? Maybe this place would hold some answers, she thought, as she walked inside.
The place was well lit, and the floor was light stone – somewhere between light yellow and camel-brown, like the colour of an old page –
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