Lydia Deetz and the witch's house (completed 14/14)

The music box

LYDIA DEETZ AND THE WITCH'S HOUSE

Capítulo 9: The music box

The horrible mouth painted on the wall connected to a very narrow, low passageway. Lydia and the others had no choice but to crawl over the cold metal floor.

The kids reached the end of the passageway, which opened to form a small room with the same metal floor. In front of them there was a door and next to it there were openings in the floor where metal spikes came out at regular intervals.

"If we had gone another way," Percy said, "we would have ended up impaled."

The three kids exchanged nervous looks at the prospect and then decided they had no choice but to open the front door.

Right in front of the door was a mysterious note.

"Make sound in all four rooms."

"Another puzzle," said Lydia, when in that, coming out of the shadows of a corner, came out Kira, the black cat.

"Hello, this room is very quiet."

Except for the wall with the three horrible painted faces, this room was the most dimly lit so far. The floor was made of dark brown parquet and the walls were upholstered in navy blue, an elegant combination, but not very effective when it came to giving the room a natural shine.

At the front of the room was a slightly narrower corridor and in this there were four gas lamps that were off at the time.

"Lydia, what's that?" Percy pointed to the statue that was right next to the door.

"It looks like a nutcracker doll but it's life-size," replied the gothic girl as she tiptoed to see the nutcracker's eyes better.

"You don't think the dummy's trying to attack us when we try to get through the door, do you?" Viola said nervously.

"I don't think so," Lydia replied, "remember that the house doesn't want to restrict us, it wants to challenge us."

After getting some air, the three kids opened the door and found a room that seemed to have a white marble floor. There were several elegant chairs against the walls and all of them directed to the center of the room, where there was an elegant red Persian carpet with a golden frame; and above it, an elegant grand piano in the color of ebony; besides, next to the piano, there was a very expensive vase with a sumptuous arrangement of flowers.

"Look, another note," said Lydia.

"You don't need to touch."

"It's a shame you can't play the piano, Lydia," Percy said, "you know how to play musical instruments."

"Can you play the piano?" Viola asked her.

"Among other things," Lydia replied, "at Miss Shannon's school I wanted to form a band for the school festival."

"The Brides of Frankenstein," Percy recalled, "it's a shame you didn't want to be the vocalist. With your beautiful voice, it's a waste not to sing."

"I'm very embarrassed to sing in front of the others, Percy. Besides, the girls wouldn't help me."

"How's that?" asked Viola.

"Bertha and Prudence, I thought they were my friends, but in the end..."

"These idiots betrayed Lydia," Percy continued, seeing that Lydia was silent. "After going with Lydia to the Peaceful Pines cemetery, they told Lydia they would be her friends, but guess what, Claire showed up and gave them a choice as to whether they preferred her or Lydia."