Для компании «Сonceptis Puzzles»

« … It was dark by the time Kat solved the puzzle. Only one other soul was awake. Across the street, a dim light burned in the window of Old Lilias's house. Unable to climb the stairs, she lived and slept at street level. Her eyesight had gone: she could see her room on summer mornings when the sun shone through straight through the little window. The rest of the time she lived in darkness.

Now she rocked in her chair, waiting for sleep.
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Kat slipped on a pair of dark safety glasses and turned the dials on the padlock: 593. … She lifted the lid and took out from inside the box a black velvet drawstring bag. Without opening the bag, she felt the contours of the object inside: multi-faceted, the size of a plum.
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An intense blast of cold, electric blue light poured from the bag, its brilliance revealing the strangeness of the shop's exhibits: tusks, totems, scrimshaw, skulls. Kat pinched the bag shut. It was dark again.
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The street slumbered on, oblivious. Only Old Lilias saw it. There was a hole in the shutters which Kat had used to obscure her activities. Through this hole the blue light poured. It flashed across the street and through Lilias's window. The old woman was astonished to see, for the briefest moment, the objects in the corner of her bedroom bathed in the blue light: bowl, pitcher, daguerrotype of her mother.

Soon after, Lilias fell asleep, dreaming of her mother's voice. …»