About this story
A competition notice for restoring her inherited castle brings you to the gate the next morning, where you meet Paula directly, hear a rival architect's warnings, and lay out what you would keep of the old building and what you would let go. She hands you the key to a tower that has just shifted overnight.
How it opens
Evening gilded the churchyard where you had spent the day sketching medieval stone.
Your stool, pencils, and folded studies went ahead with an inn boy down the lane.
Water BearerMind your step, sir. The cistern leaks and we are filling it again.
Choose
What ceremony requires a cistern after sunset?
I was leaving, but that hymn has followed me since childhood.