From Shadows, Emerging Tides
Inside it smells like wax and neoprene and wood shavings and salt, and the boards hanging on the walls are beautiful, functional objects in the way that tools sometimes become art through pure honesty of purpose.
The cellar stairs are behind a door at the back of the showroom. Down them: cinder block walls, a cement floor, a dehumidifier that runs constant, two futons, blow up mattresses, built-in shelving along one wall already stocked—water, flashlights, a hand-crank radio, canned goods in orderly rows. Yes, definitely seems hurricane rated.
They carry bags down. Mia carries the dollhouse herself, both arms wrapped around it, and places it on the low shelf beside the couch with ceremonial
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