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Kara sighed and looked around They were in a snant was the word for it It felt thin and tinny in her lungs, like no en to it

“How long you think this has been closed off?” asked Jeremy

“Forever, probably”

Yelloallpaper hung in tatters, curling down from the walls Kara examined it in the places it wasn’t She saw the faded shape of a rocking horse Tiny hearts Balloons and ribbons…

“Look at that!”

Jereainst the as an antique, turn-of-last-century, wrought-iron crib

Kara looked quickly, then turned aincing

“Is… Is it…” Between the dust and the lack of air, she couldn’t form the words “Does it have—”

“No,” said Jeremy thankfully “It’s empty”

Relief washed over her, replaced quickly by curiosity Kara opened her eyes and scanned the rest of the tiny roo chair, draped with cobwebs

“Well this was obviously a baby nursery,” she said

Jererabbed the frame of another doorway off to the left, plastered over on the opposite side

“This opening once led your room,” he noted “Before it alled off”

She took a step forward, and that’s when it began It started off as a tingle at first… an itch at the back of her head, right at the base of her brain The roohter, even in the darkness, and then suddenly Kara felt the fa pushed through soh she was never quite sure what

She was still in the rooht streamed in fro her baby, gently hu The chair was in a different place but the crib’s location was the same