The Last Enemy
“The Index, the list of places where every one of the Malichea books was hidden.
The car followed the twists and turns, until they rounded a final bend and saw the hall ahead of them.
It was massive. OK, not as big as somewhere like Buckingham Palace, and it wasn’t many storeys high, like some stately homes, but it was a rambling Tudor mansion with additional wings, all in the same black timber-framed style bending this way and that.
‘Wow!’ said Jake. ‘That is some house! It looks li...ke it’s got . . . what . . . a hundred rooms? And one family lived here?’ ‘Plus their servants. And guest wings for important visitors. Royalty arriving with all their attendants and servants. A place like this needed to be big.’ They drove past a single-storey gatehouse towards the car park.
‘It’s huge!’ murmured Jake. ‘It must have cost a fortune to maintain this place!’ ‘It still looks like it did way back in Tudor times,’ said Lauren, bringing up an image of an old painting of the house on her iPhone.MoreLess
The car followed the twists and turns, until they rounded a final bend and saw the hall ahead of them.
It was massive. OK, not as big as somewhere like Buckingham Palace, and it wasn’t many storeys high, like some stately homes, but it was a rambling Tudor mansion with additional wings, all in the same black timber-framed style bending this way and that.
‘Wow!’ said Jake. ‘That is some house! It looks li...ke it’s got . . . what . . . a hundred rooms? And one family lived here?’ ‘Plus their servants. And guest wings for important visitors. Royalty arriving with all their attendants and servants. A place like this needed to be big.’ They drove past a single-storey gatehouse towards the car park.
‘It’s huge!’ murmured Jake. ‘It must have cost a fortune to maintain this place!’ ‘It still looks like it did way back in Tudor times,’ said Lauren, bringing up an image of an old painting of the house on her iPhone.MoreLess
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