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21 lines
556 B
Markdown
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id: creaking-floorboard
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startsIn: "[[drunk-landing]]"
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initialPhase: creaking
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## creaking
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One floorboard creaks after you have stopped moving.
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It creaks again, softer, from under the wrong foot.
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## listen-resolved
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You listen.
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The board lifts by itself. Beneath it is a narrow door, and behind the door a man without a face sits with his hands folded.
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"Halfstreet keeps what is owed," he whispers. "It does not know the difference between a debt and a child."
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## wrong-verb
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The floorboard waits until you breathe, then creaks beneath that too.
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