The Golden Vendetta (2015)
“It was in the small hours of Sunday morning, and Nagymező Street was silent, still, completely deserted.
Not a soul moved on either side of the block. A flag hanging from a window opposite rippled lightly in the breeze. Traffic moved sparsely on the far cross street, but no one entered Nagymező. Nothing moved there.
Darrell tapped Wade’s arm. “What do you think? Can you solve it?”
Wade shook his head as he held the heavy cylinder of red wood. It was divided into three sections, each one exactly... a third of the cylinder’s length. There must have been something like an axle running through the center of the pieces because Darrell watched him turn the sections back and forth like the faces of a Rubik’s Cube.
“I don’t know . . . yet. I really need time.”
One end of the puzzle was flat. The other had little cutouts along the rim—he counted over twenty—like the crenellations at the top of a tower.
“Is it a model of an actual tower somewhere?” said Lily. “And once you solve the puzzle does the thing rattling inside show you where in the tower the key is?”MoreLess
Not a soul moved on either side of the block. A flag hanging from a window opposite rippled lightly in the breeze. Traffic moved sparsely on the far cross street, but no one entered Nagymező. Nothing moved there.
Darrell tapped Wade’s arm. “What do you think? Can you solve it?”
Wade shook his head as he held the heavy cylinder of red wood. It was divided into three sections, each one exactly... a third of the cylinder’s length. There must have been something like an axle running through the center of the pieces because Darrell watched him turn the sections back and forth like the faces of a Rubik’s Cube.
“I don’t know . . . yet. I really need time.”
One end of the puzzle was flat. The other had little cutouts along the rim—he counted over twenty—like the crenellations at the top of a tower.
“Is it a model of an actual tower somewhere?” said Lily. “And once you solve the puzzle does the thing rattling inside show you where in the tower the key is?”MoreLess
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