She took back passageways to her rookery building, and slipped in through a side door. She walked down the hallway to her rooms, felt the door with a bare index finger, then the floorboards. They told her nothing unusual—it seemed things hadn’t been tampered with.
Interesting historical fact: stair height was not standardized until the Victorian era. This meant houses had sometimes randomly tall or short steps, leading to countless falls, injuries, and deaths. When I think of the rookeries, I think of that: buildings so cheap, even the stairs are hostile.
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