Laboratory

Behind the portrait is not a wall at all but a narrow passage that leads into a hidden laboratory.  The air is stale and smells like burned hair and old medicine.  Whoever was working down here left in a hurry, or perhaps they never left at all.

The notes on the table are mostly nonsense, but one sentence can still be read.  "Electricity is only dangerous if you are unlucky."  That does not comfort me.

 

There is a shape under the sheet on the table.  It has not moved, but I am almost certain it is listening.

 

Back through the portrait.

Run through the side door.