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Riley double-checks the address card Ali gave them. They’re on the right street, they know, but the house number- 5040- is not emblazoned or painted on the side of the door. There’s no door at all, in fact. A wooden sign with “5040” painted in black letters hangs over a chest-high gate that looks over a garden.
Despite the dry, almost oppressive heat of the world around them, the garden is a lush and verdant green. Thick grass paints the landscape, recently trimmed and surrounding multicolored pools of flowers. A large, thick tree casts a beckoning shadow over the ground next to a shimmering pool of blue water.
With nothing else to do, they open the gate and step inside. Immediately, they feel their stomach tighten as if they’re breaking a rule. If people are allowed to just walk inside, wouldn’t the place be totally full? They wait for someone to stop them, call after them and say they can’t be in there, but nothing comes. They cast a glance behind them, and no one’s even looking at them. *Weird*.