With the brooch in hand, you trek upstairs. Perhaps you intuition about the piano is correct; there are many keys missing from this filthy, dusty piano. A centimeter thick layer of dust seems to coat the entire instrument. When you sit on the stool, clouds of the stuff fluffs into the air. You might be coughing for days at this rate.

Each key is pressed; from the first key until the third to last key, they all sound in tune. The sound is right, and there is nothing off about these ivory keys. But the last two don’t seem to make a noise. Listen closely, though, and you’ll hear that there is is a noise, but it is so muffled and quiet from within that piano lid that surely something is not letting those keys do their musical duty.

So...what does this mean?