Sean Q 1999-02-16

The room is warm, but there is frost on the windows. A fireplace on the main wall with a brick mantle, sparsely furnished with a 60's era couch and loveseat, two small end tables. Brown shag carpet, well worn, and one large plant in the corner.

Bright light shines between tall dark oak and maple trees. An occasional evergreen here and there, thick underbrush except for the path.

The path is rocky and sandy but otherwise clear, narrow at turns but otherwise wide and easily traveled

A natural stream with small pools of dark water out of the current, rocks poke above the surface, very cold

An earthenware bowl, almost a vase, vaguely American Indian markings on the sides.

Skeleton key, turn of the century style, to an old padlock or maybe the door of an old barn.