The parlor is a spacious room with lumpy gray couches and tall marble bookcases elegantly placed around the room.
This could be a nice place to curl up until help comes, or at least until your big brother takes mercy and lets you out.
You take a peek out of the window. It's starting to rain, oh no. Rain plus spooky house...
A grandfather clock tic-tocs heavily in one corner, taunting you with every tic and toc.
There's a large wardrobe closet with ornately carved claw feet in one corner. Curious if there’s a spare key stored in there, you tiptoe over to open it.
Unfortunately, the knob breaks off in your hand, and you don’t have a safety pin or key to unlock it.
Was that a whisper you heard? Maybe your brother is back? Maybe we should move along!