text: [Themes: Historical Fantasy, island, fantasy]
  
  > describe your surroundings
  The parlour is of a good size, but not so big as to forfeit a certain rustic cosiness. The large open fireplace looks as if it could
  sustain quite a blaze in winter, though it's currently unlit. The furniture is plain but functional. The front door is to the south, with other doorways to north and east.
  
  Julia is standing here.
  
  > Go north
  Julia comes with you.
  
  The kitchen is quite large, and conveys something of the same rustic flavour as the parlour, which lies just to the south. A plain wooden door, painted black, is set in the north wall next to a large wood-burning stove. An even larger wooden table occupies most of the space in the middle of the kitchen, together with a conveniently
  placed wooden chair.
  
  Julia is standing here.
  
  > go to the north
  You hardly feel you can start wandering uninvited into other parts of the house.
  
  > go to the south
  Julia comes with you.
  
  The parlour is of a good size, but not so big as to forfeit a certain rustic cosiness. The large open fireplace looks as if it could
  sustain quite a blaze in winter, though it's currently unlit. The furniture is plain but functional. The front door is to the south, with other doorways to north and east.
  
  Julia is standing here.
  
  > Go east
  You hardly feel you can go wandering round the house uninvited.
  
  > examine the fireplace
  It's currently unlit, but it looks like one could get quite a blaze burning in it.
  
  > Go south
  "Well, bye for now then; no doubt I shall see you again soon,"
  Julia
  bids you farewell.
  
  Most of this sizeable garden is given over to vegetable plots. To the east it comes to an abrupt end overlooking the cove, accessible via a rough flight of stone steps. At its northern end stands a large stone house, from the front of which a gravel path heads off to the west, while along the garden's southern boundary runs a long wooden fence.
  
  Julia closes the front door from the other side.
  
  > go west
  The main path continues to east and west as far as you can see, rising slightly to the latter as it heads inland. A long hedge blocks the
  way south, but just at this point of the path a rutted track runs off to the north.
  
  > Go west
  You set off to the west, and after a brisk walk up the slope you find yourself on the eastern outskirts of the town.
  
  Pressed in between a rough stone wall to the north and a small shop to the south this short, narrow street runs east back towards the coast and west towards the centre of town.
  
  > go west
  This crossroads, at what may be the centre of the town, is formed by meeting of roads to north, south, east and west. All four roads lead between grim, grey buildings; the road to the east looks quite short, while that to the west leads up a distant hill. The roads to north
  and south look as if they run on quite a way, but just a short way to the south you can see a hanging inn-sign.
  
  Two men smelling strongly of fish stride past to the south.
  
  > go to the south
  The west side of this long, grubby street is dominated by the Red Dragon Inn, while on the opposite side squats a row of bleak stone cottages. The street continues to north and south over well-worn cobbles.
  
  > go south
  Leading down from the town to the north towards a stone jetty to the south, this steep track is little more than a well-trodden path along the edge of the barren scrubland that extends to the east. A narrow side-track runs off through a thicket to the southwest.
  
  > go to the east
  the west, and ends at clifftops to northeast and southeast. The area is deserted and little grows here but some scraggy grass, impoverished by the thin, stony soil. A long wooden fence runs along much of the northern boundary of this largely wasted space, but otherwise it is open to the elements.
  
  > go to the south-east
  Cliff Top (South)
  This must be the southeastern tip of the island, thrusting out just a short way into the sea, only a dozen feet below to east and south. Immediately to the west you look down on the roof of the fish house, with the jetty a little way beyond and the beach further in the distance. The only way inland lies to the northwest, while the cliff top continues to the north.
  
  > go north
  Cliff Top (North)
  From up here on the cliff you have a spectacular view over the sea a hundred feet below, but as ever it's cut short by the mist a few hundred yards out from the shore. You can also see down into a cove
  to the north, although there's no way to reach it from here. But perhaps the most striking feature of this part of the cliff is the thick grass that covers it; something about the soil causes it to grow in a spectrum of greens from almost yellow to virtually turquoise, creating an effect akin to a patterned carpet. The cliff top
  continues to the south, while to the southwest lies a large expanse of scrubland.
  
  > examine the grass
  The grass here looks none too healthy, consisting as it does of
  patches of yellow and green. For a moment you fancy that the alternating patches of colour are spelling out the word COME, but when you blink and look again the patches just look random again, and you feel sure you must have imagined it.
  
  > keep going
  The grass here looks none too healthy, consisting as it does of
  patches of yellow and green. For a moment you fancy that the alternating patches of colour are spelling out the word NORTH, but
  when you blink and look again the patches just look random again, and you feel sure you must have imagined it. Yet this is the second time you think you saw something there.
  
  > Keep going
  The grass here looks none too healthy, consisting as it does of
  patches of yellow and green. For a moment you fancy that the alternating patches of colour are spelling out the word TO, but when you blink and look again the patches just look random again, and you feel sure you must have imagined it. This is beginning to feel just a little spooky.
  
  > keep going
  The grass here looks none too healthy, consisting as it does of
  patches of yellow and green. For a moment you fancy that the alternating patches of colour are spelling out the word MEET, but when you blink and look again the patches just look random again, and you feel sure you must have imagined it. This is starting to become more than a little spooky.
  
  > Continue
  The grass here looks none too healthy, consisting as it does of
  patches of yellow and green. For a moment you fancy that the alternating patches of colour are spelling out the word YOUR, but when you blink and look again the patches just look random again, and you feel sure you must have imagined it. You begin to wonder if your mind has been affected by your night in the sea.
  
  > continue
  The grass here looks none too healthy, consisting as it does of
  patches of yellow and green. For a moment you fancy that the alternating patches of colour are spelling out the word DESTINY, but when you blink and look again the patches just look random again, and you feel sure you must have imagined it. You wonder if you dare look again; how can your imagination be playing such tricks on you?
  
  > examine the grass
  The grass here looks none too healthy, consisting as it does of
  patches of yellow and green. For a moment you fancy that the alternating patches of colour are spelling out the word COME, but when you blink and look again the patches just look random again, and you feel sure you must have imagined it. At least, that's what you keep trying to tell yourself.