---
id: creaking-floorboard
startsIn: "[[drunk-landing]]"
initialPhase: creaking
---

## creaking
One floorboard creaks after you have stopped moving.

It creaks again, softer, from under the wrong foot.

## listen-resolved
You listen.

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.

"Halfstreet keeps what is owed," he whispers. "It does not know the difference between a debt and a child."

## wrong-verb
The floorboard waits until you breathe, then creaks beneath that too.