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SHERLOCK HOLMES

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SHERLOCK HOLMES

⋇⋆✦⋆⋇ Gina watches Nancy as she looks at the different drawings, squinting at a few. "Is this a window?" she asks, picking up a page that has what looks like a door floating in the air. "Stained glass with roses?"

"Yeah." Max nods, trying to mask her surprise that Nancy figured it out. She turns to Dustin with a coy smile. "See? I'm not so terrible after all."

Nancy brings the drawing closer to her face, studying it further when she finally says, "yeah, well, it helps that I've seen it before."

Everyone looks at her with confused expressions as Nancy starts folding all the papers in different ways, almost like she's putting a puzzle together.

"It's pieces of a house," Max realizes once Nancy starts to draw lines that connect the different folds.

Nancy caps her marker. "Not just any house."

"The ghost house," Stephanie adds, her mouth forming into a tight line.

Nancy sharply nods. "It's Victor Creel's house."


⋇⋆✦⋆⋇ Later, once Nancy and Dustin informed everyone of the new Creel house theory, they all head to the house to check it out; although, Gina isn't sure what they're expecting to find. Vecna hasn't exactly been living in an old mansion for the past thirty years.

"Yeah, that's not creepy," Steve says once he gets out of the car, looking up at the boarded windows.

As they all walk down the path toward the front door, Robin walks right by Gina; unusual for her. Gina just brushes it off. Robin's just mad right now. It'll blow over.

Nancy and Steve pull out hammers from Dustin's backpack, both pulling out nails from a piece of wood covering the door. "What exactly are we supposed to be looking for in this shithole?" Steve scoffs as a nail falls to the ground.

"We're not sure," Nancy answers. "We just know this house is important to Vecna."

"Because Max saw it in Vecna's red soup mind world?" Steve asks, pulling at another nail.

"Soup?" Stephanie repeats, raising her eyebrows.

Gina rolls her eyes. "That's almost precisely the reason, Steve."

"Maybe it holds a clue to where Vecna is," Dustin shrugs. "Why he's back. Why he killed the Creels. And how to stop him before he comes back for Max."

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