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The common room was a museum of lost things. A grandfather clock with no hands. A globe spinning backward. On the hearth, a pair of boots caked with seven different colors of mud. And people—or the shells of them—huddled in mismatched chairs. A woman with a compass tattooed on her wrist, always pointing south. A man who counted his fingers obsessively: ten, nine, ten, nine. An old fellow who said nothing but hummed the same lullaby, over and over, as if trying to remember whose cradle he’d once bent over.

That was a lie, of course. There were always vacancies. home for wayward travellers

“No one is,” the Keeper replied. “That’s the first sign that you do.” The common room was a museum of lost things

And the sign outside continued to swing. Home for Wayward Travellers. On the hearth, a pair of boots caked

“You’ll want the north wing,” the Keeper said, sliding a brass key across the wood. “Room 7. It has a window that looks out on the road you didn’t take.”

No vacancies. Never.