It's An Adventure!

Back in my March 2019 Prompt Request, Lyn Thorne-Alder prompted "Something like a children's board game, but as an Adventure." This came in at 1,770 words.

It had been supposed to be a simple job, done while the adults waited inside the house.  Great-Aunt Charley's papers were up in the storage space above the garage in the rooms that had once been the groom's accommodation.  That, of course, had been back in the days before cars and when the house had belonged to someone who had the money for domestic staff.  These days the rooms were accessed by pull-down stairs, and that had been the only thing that had gone right.  Once they'd gotten up to the door, unlocked it and gone inside, they hadn't been able to find the light switch.  Michael had pulled out his phone and used the torch function, and although the light had seemed dimmer than usual it had let them find the pullcord hanging from the ceiling that operated the light switch.  The first room, one of three, had been a kitchen - Great-Aunt Charley had once suggested that the rooms were meant for a married couple because they were more like a small apartment than old servants’ quarters.  It was well lit between the electric light and the closed glass windows, but their father had been quite clear that all their great-aunts' papers, and their grandmother's, were right at the back in the third room.  Cousin Angela, who was one of the reasons the documents were needed, had asked why he didn't get them himself and he had just looked at his plastered leg and then looked at her again.

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