Riddle
What is as clear as glass but carries the weight of lives untold? Its crimson hue, like a veil, holds secrets bold.
As Lily reads the note, her eyes light up with determination. This riddle could hold the key to her escape.
"What is as clear as glass but carries the weight of lives untold?" she repeats to herself, trying to interpret each word.
Clearasglass could mean something transparent, like air or water. And the word crimson suggests red, as in blood. But what does carries the weight of lives untold mean?
She puzzles over the riddle, determined to figure out its meaning.
After a few minutes of pondering the riddle, Lily finally arrives at the solution: Bloodstone. She now remembers reading about this rare gemstone, which is transparent but has a deep red color, often resembling droplets of blood. Its name, "bloodstone," perfectly fits the final line of the riddle.
"Maybe I was wrong," she thinks, her heart sinking at the prospect of being back at square one. "There's no bloodstone here. What else could the riddle mean?"
She starts to doubt her conclusion, wondering if she was mistaken about the riddle's solution.
As she walks back down the long hallway, a strange thought occurs to her. She stops in front of the two-way mirror that revealed the other room.
As she recalls the scene she had seen through the two-way mirror, Lily suddenly understands the true meaning of the riddle. The room with the chair and rope represented something clear like glass but with the weight of lives untold. The deep red hue, it was the blood on the walls. And the only barrier to this room was the clear glass of the two-way mirror.
"A clear stone, like the glass of the two-way mirror, with the weight of lives untold and a crimson hue like the blood in the room," she whispers, repeating the elements of the riddle
As Lily solves the riddle, a flicker of understanding starts to show on her face.
Lily carefully examines the room behind the two-way mirror, her mind racing. The room is sparsely furnished with only a chair, a rope hanging from the ceiling, and the stark white walls that bear traces of blood. Despite the room’s sparse contents, Lily is certain the password must be there. But the question remains: how can she access the room when there is no door?