[img]http://edwardpicot.com/puzzlebox/skyscraper.jpg[/img]

"At the base of the back wall, between the skirting-board and the floor, the 
corner of something was poking out. It was pure fluke that she noticed it, 
because the skirting-board and the floor were both white, and the poking-out 
corner was white too. She crouched down and slid it free. It was like the back 
of a white credit-card, with a black magnetic band running across it. She 
turned it over. It was like an identity-card, except that there was no writing. 
At the left-hand end there was a picture of someone's face. Rather a 
disconcerting face: pale, white-bearded, with mournful, haunted eyes. People 
always look bad in identity-card photographs, but this face was especially 
ghoulish-looking. And she had the odd feeling that she'd seen it somewhere 
before."

It's Christmas Eve, and Dora is trapped in a huge tower-block in the middle of 
London. She's lost the puzzle box, and she still can't find her Dad. But at 
least she's got Adam with her again.

The ninth chapter of twelve.

http://www.edwardpicot.com/puzzlebox/
(If you don't see links to all nine chapters when you get to the Puzzle Box 
index-page, click CTRL + Refresh to update the page.)

- Edward Picot
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
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