The Chaos Code
“It made the large house seem oppressive and claustrophobic despite its size. Matt found that he was getting nervous and jumpy – paranoid, more like, he thought. He too closed doors behind him, saw vague faces in the patterns of rain spattered against the windows, and quickly drew the curtains. He felt draughts in rooms where the air was still and warm, and he caught his breath anxiously as dust stirred when a door opened.
By the afternoon he was ready to leave the books and papers that Vent...ure and Robin had set him to catalogue and return to Aunt Jane’s cottage. It looked more like autumn than mid-summer outside. Leaves were strewn across the lawn and the trees looked brittle and bare. The sun seemed to be struggling to make an impression through the skittering clouds and Matt wished he’d worn a coat.
Another sound mingled with the gusting wind and creaking trees, a deep throbbing that Matt could feel reverberating inside his chest.MoreLess
By the afternoon he was ready to leave the books and papers that Vent...ure and Robin had set him to catalogue and return to Aunt Jane’s cottage. It looked more like autumn than mid-summer outside. Leaves were strewn across the lawn and the trees looked brittle and bare. The sun seemed to be struggling to make an impression through the skittering clouds and Matt wished he’d worn a coat.
Another sound mingled with the gusting wind and creaking trees, a deep throbbing that Matt could feel reverberating inside his chest.MoreLess
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