Chapter Three
The Trickster
Straight away, Julia led Paige inside the house and down a straight flight of wide stairs. At the bottom, a long hallway stretched out with several, solid black, steel doors on either side. Julia turned right and opened the first one. At a hand signal from Julia, Paige entered first and found herself in a small, red circle in the middle of the room. Wall pegs, probably for the hanging of implements of torture, decorated each wall. Two chains dangled from the center of the room while a thin pallet stretched out in the far back, left corner. A small barred window, nearly level with the ten-foot ceiling, allowed in the barest amount of light.
Julia shut the steel door. Clang! She took down a key and chain from a peg next to the door, turned the lock, and
