After what felt like forever searching and coming up with nothing, Claudia dusted off her hands. “There’s another place I can check. Hang on.”
I stood up from where I was digging through the books, and Claudia came back with a box.
“Maybe in here?”
Daniel and her started inspecting the books, but something else caught my eye. I hadn’t noticed before that there was a hidden door built into one of the walls.
“What’s back there?” I asked.
“Back where?” Claudia said without looking up. “Behind this,” I said as I walked to the wall. “Nothing. What you see is what you get.”
“No. There’s something here.” I ran my fingers along the crease, looking for some sort of a latch. A small, thin piece of metal stuck up about two-thirds of the way up the door from the ground. I pushed on it and the do
