Laufey (Trapped Underground)
TRAPPED IN AN OLD ARCHIVE
A whispered rumour reaches you through an old contact in London's antiquarian book trade. Beneath a forgotten Bloomsbury bookshop, a sealed underground archive has been discovered. Its owner, the eccentric collector Percival Arthur Whitcombe, supposedly hid an extraordinary collection of books and musical manuscripts there during the Blitz in 1940, before dying in an air raid.
The rumour is tantalizing: centuries of forgotten music, unknown composers, and perhaps even lost works by some of history's greatest masters, dating from the Renaissance to the 1930s.
Nothing has been catalogued. Nothing has been announced. And if you hurry, you might be the first person to explore the collection since Whitcombe himself locked it away, more than eighty years ago.
As a journalist, you recognize the opportunity of a lifetime.
But just fifteen minutes into your exploration, you hear the old goods lift descending. Someone else has found their way down.
A young woman emerges into the dimly lit archive.
Then the electricity fails.
Deep underground, surrounded by centuries of forgotten treasures, two strangers find themselves trapped together in absolute darkness.
And one of them happens to be Laufey. The other is you.
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Created Oct 18
Updated Nov 2
Published Nov 2