text: [Themes: Fantasy, Children's, Seasonal, kid-friendly, child protagonist, female protagonist]
  
  > look at your surroundings
  The cottage is warm and cozy. Burning candles resting in sconces along the walls twinkle brightly illuminating the room in flickering yellow light. The cottage appears to be just a one-room dwelling. The front door is closed to the west. A large walk-in wardrobe has been pushed up against one of the walls; its door is closed. The portion of the room near the trap door would seem to serve as the kitchen equipped with cupboards from which hang cups and saucers. Near the center of the room stands a modest table surrounded by a few chairs. Centered in the middle of the table is a large glass dome filled with many translucent spheres that glisten in the firelight. Aside from various knickknacks strewn about, you notice a large couch with fluffy pillows facing the fireplace. A large black kettle hangs in the fireplace above a raging fire.
  
  > examine the rings
  The etchings of the vertically stacked rings line up in four columns at equal distances around the circumference. Looking at the column of etchings above the embossed arrow, the top ring carving resembles a star, the middle ring etching is a wreath, and the bottom ring etching is a toy horse.
  
  > open the wardrobe
  The wardrobe doors creak as you open them.
  
  > look at the table
  It is simply a plain, wooden table.
  
  > look at the fireplace
  The large fireplace is made of red bricks. A long, thin stocking has been hung from the mantle. A raging fire blazes in the hearth causing the kettle's water to boil ferociously.
  
  > examine the stocking
  The brown stocking is long and thin.
  
  > get it
  Taken.
  
  > Wear stocking
  The stocking is much too big for you.
  
  > Inventory
  You are carrying:
  a stocking
  a fine black top hat
  a handful of grey stones
  handsome leather shoes
  a candle stick
  
  > examine stones
  The grey stones are small and spherical.
  
  > examine the arrow
  The arrow carved upon the bottom support of the dome points inward giving significance to the column of carvings centered just above the tip.
  
  > turn ring
  Which do you mean, the top ring, the middle ring or the bottom ring?
  
  > look at the top ring
  The top ring of the dome's base has four equidistant carvings around its perimeter. As you circle the dome to the right, you see carvings which resemble a star, a wreath, a candy cane, and a figure of a toy horse.
  
  The etchings of the vertically stacked rings line up in four columns at equal distances around the circumference. Looking at the column of etchings above the embossed arrow, the top ring carving resembles a star, the middle ring etching is a wreath, and the bottom ring etching is a toy horse.
  
  > examine middle ring
  The middle ring of the dome's base has four equidistant carvings around its perimeter. As you circle the dome to the right, you see carvings which resemble a wreath, a candy cane, a toy horse, and a figure of a star.
  
  The etchings of the vertically stacked rings line up in four columns at equal distances around the circumference. Looking at the column of etchings above the embossed arrow, the top ring carving resembles a star, the middle ring etching is a wreath, and the bottom ring etching is a toy horse.
  
  > turn the top ring
  You turn the top ring to the right and it clicks into place once offset by a quarter turn. Simultaneously, the middle ring moves one quarter turn to the right as well.
  
  The etchings of the vertically stacked rings line up in four columns at equal distances around the circumference. Looking at the column of etchings above the embossed arrow, the top ring carving resembles a wreath, the middle ring etching is a candy cane, and the bottom ring etching is a toy horse.
  
  > turn the bottom ring
  You turn the bottom ring to the right and it clicks into place once offset by a quarter turn. Simultaneously, the top ring moves one quarter turn to the right as well.
  
  The etchings of the vertically stacked rings line up in four columns at equal distances around the circumference. Looking at the column of etchings above the embossed arrow, the top ring carving resembles a candy cane, the middle ring etching is a candy cane, and the bottom ring etching is a star.
  
  > turn middle ring
  You turn the middle ring to the left and it clicks into place once offset by a quarter turn. Simultaneously, the bottom ring moves one quarter turn to the left as well.
  
  The etchings of the vertically stacked rings line up in four columns at equal distances around the circumference. Looking at the column of etchings above the embossed arrow, the top ring carving resembles a candy cane, the middle ring etching is a wreath, and the bottom ring etching is a toy horse.
  
  You turn the middle ring to the left and it clicks into place once offset by a quarter turn. Simultaneously, the bottom ring moves one quarter turn to the left as well.
  
  The etchings of the vertically stacked rings line up in four columns at equal distances around the circumference. Looking at the column of etchings above the embossed arrow, the top ring carving resembles a candy cane, the middle ring etching is a star, and the bottom ring etching is a candy cane.
  
  > look at the top ring
  The top ring of the dome's base has four equidistant carvings around its perimeter. As you circle the dome to the right, you see carvings which resemble a star, a wreath, a candy cane, and a figure of a toy horse.
  
  The etchings of the vertically stacked rings line up in four columns at equal distances around the circumference. Looking at the column of etchings above the embossed arrow, the top ring carving resembles a candy cane, the middle ring etching is a star, and the bottom ring etching is a candy cane.
  
  > look at the middle ring
  The middle ring of the dome's base has four equidistant carvings around its perimeter. As you circle the dome to the right, you see carvings which resemble a wreath, a candy cane, a toy horse, and a figure of a star.
  
  The etchings of the vertically stacked rings line up in four columns at equal distances around the circumference. Looking at the column of etchings above the embossed arrow, the top ring carving resembles a candy cane, the middle ring etching is a star, and the bottom ring etching is a candy cane.
  
  > examine the bottom ring
  The bottom ring of the dome's base has four equidistant carvings around its perimeter. As you circle the dome to the right, you see carvings which resemble a toy horse, a star, a wreath, and an etching of a candy cane.
  
  The etchings of the vertically stacked rings line up in four columns at equal distances around the circumference. Looking at the column of etchings above the embossed arrow, the top ring carving resembles a candy cane, the middle ring etching is a star, and the bottom ring etching is a candy cane.
  
  > Turn bottom
  You turn the bottom ring to the right and it clicks into place once offset by a quarter turn. Simultaneously, the top ring moves one quarter turn to the right as well.
  
  The etchings of the vertically stacked rings line up in four columns at equal distances around the circumference. Looking at the column of etchings above the embossed arrow, the top ring carving resembles a toy horse, the middle ring etching is a star, and the bottom ring etching is a toy horse.
  
  > Turn bottom
  You turn the bottom ring to the right and it clicks into place once offset by a quarter turn. Simultaneously, the top ring moves one quarter turn to the right as well.
  
  The etchings of the vertically stacked rings line up in four columns at equal distances around the circumference. Looking at the column of etchings above the embossed arrow, the top ring carving resembles a star, the middle ring etching is a star, and the bottom ring etching is a star.
  
  > look at the baubles
  Some of the bluish orbs float serenely by as if corks upon the ocean while others tumble and twirl through the air as if trying to occupy every square inch of available space in the cottage at least once.
  
  > take them
  You reach for one of the baubles floating close by, but just as you are about to capture it, the orb deftly swirls out of your grasp. It circles you almost tauntingly and then floats away.
  
  > look in dome
  The glass dome has retreated into its ornately carved base.