The Girl in the Red Hood

Chapter XII

I walked down the halls of her house, which is actually pretty amazing. From the inside, it looked like a typical cottage you might see at the bottom of a cliff. Made of old, decaying logs, obvious spider webs clung to almost every square inch of the house. The single window next to the door had most of its glass broken, like someone had tried to break in with a wooden club, but didn't even bother doing a clean job. The only two pieces of glass left were both wickedly sharp, and looked menacing enough to rip you to shreds, and then choke down what's left of you. Sorry, too graphic? That's too bad. The inside was totally different. There was one main room, at the center of a huge labyrinth of hallways. Each hall either landed at a normal room, a dead end (I noticed a lot of those), and other doors, with magnificent detail, engraved with different images. Some looked thousands of years old. Some looked like it was carved from the future. The only problem with these doors was the fact that terrible beasts guarded each and every one. In the few special doors that I've seen, I've seen hydras, sphinxes, and even more.

Right before my "tour" ended, we landed back in the main room, which Josi called "the Center". I got to look at the walls, which were covered by even more engravings than on the door. The doors had one, huge image on it, while the walls of the Center was more like a mural of different pictures, each a different story. One in particular caught my eye. It was a boy that I was sure I'd never seen before, yet looked oddly familiar. Josi the ferocious witch guides me down yet another hall, and stops in front of a special door. She called off the giant, hairy spider and pulled me closer to the door. It didn't look like anything special, just a wooden door, but the image was... Me.