---
id: distant-steps
startsIn: "[[wrong-hallway]]"
initialPhase: approaching
---

## approaching
The footsteps come closer without growing louder.

They stop whenever you move.

## wait-resolved
You stand still.

The steps pass through you with the cold, careful pressure of someone carrying a tray through a dark room. When they are gone, the hallway is shorter by one door.

## wrong-verb
The hallway lengthens. The footsteps begin again from farther away.

## failed
You turn back too quickly and find the parlor waiting with all its chairs facing you.