№ 138 Cavendish

Archivist's Excerpt from: A Tale of Almost Two Cities: Orphan Heights & Related Histories, CVI 42:4

№ 138 Cavendish Lane, Attistock, Orphan Heights, is a simple brownstone unit in the dusty Labour Quarter of Algary in Attistock right near the border of Harchester, rented out as something of an academic office space by one Agnes Esker of Harchester, until the time of her death in 1894. It was the location of the bulk of her academic work, and of the eventual drafting of her rather infamous manuscript, The Metarcanum: A Theory of Linguistic Constitution of Matter, Energy, & Form, which was never published officially.

Unfortunately, it was also the location of Agnes Esker's death, though details of that event are spotty, at best, officially labeled "Heart Failure" by the physicians.

The space was held in probate by the Municipal General for the three years following until accessed by one Alvin Esker, Agnes Esker's youngest brother, in September of 1897, which he did by use of an un-returned key and the general bureaucratic carelessness of the Municipal General.

Since that time, № 138 has remained empty, with only its dust and covered divan and meager few belongings left within to clutter the heap.