The Lighthouse Keeper — Chapter 1, Page 4
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The lantern room. Dust thick on the great lens. Elias: No log. No coat on the hook. He left in a hurry. Elias: Outside, only the sea. No boats. No birds. Elias: Too quiet for a working light.
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Elias, a man with salt-and-pepper hair and a scar on his nose, stands inside a lighthouse lantern room, observing the dusty lens and the open sea, and musing about the previous keeper's hurried departure and the unusual quietness of the lighthouse.
About this chapter
Elias begins his first day as the keeper of the lighthouse, discovering the strange properties of the light and the isolation of the island. He finds an old journal that hints at a mystery regarding the previous keeper.