Look around carefully.
There is a sagging wooden fence, twice your height, behind you,
beyond which you see sky. To your left, the fence sort of melts
into a wooden building. There are cross-bracings holding them
together, so they look like two drunks holding each other up.
Badly.
The wooden structure is also two stories high and has no door
or window facing you.
In the fourth direction is the alleyway, which leads off
toward.....
With no warning your legs buckle under you and you hit the
ground hard.
You awaken with the sense that it's much later. The rats are
nibbling at your boots and your hands, which are splayed out in
either direction.
You begin a careful search of your surroundings. The stone
building to your right has a large doorway covered with an iron
gateway. There are no windows on the first floor but the second
floor has a single window, boarded shut.
