It's Saturday morning at the Toronto Reference Library. The entire top floor has been rented out to cyberNExT, an up-and-coming internet technology conference. Its organizer, Mr. Kelbourne, is leading you upstairs.
"...I mean, I'm just so lucky you were downstairs when this all happened," he says. "I'm not sure I would have been able to handle this if I had to go outside the building.
"The best investigators can always be found in the library," you explain. "Reading is the key to good detectiving."
"Now look," he says, "I realize you're a bit... well, young, but if you're as good at this as my niece says you are..."
"Mr. Kelbourne, Amanda was a good sitter, a good client, and a good friend. I didn't let her down, and I don't intend to let a member of her family down either.
"I'm glad to hear that," he says. "This really is quite a difficult situation for me. You see–"
You hold your hand up. "Before we get started, there is the matter of my fee."
"Oh, right. Of course. I can give you ten dollars."
10th place (out of 35) in the 19th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.
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