Ronald & Tony

The last lantern

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The last lantern

On a sheltered part of the stone landing, Anya draws a simple plan on a scrap of wrapping paper with a printer's pencil. The others look down at it from the same side. Overhead composition: front building at bottom, rear house at top, courtyard between them, passage along the right. No one holds the drawing facing away from themselves. Anya: The shop is in front. There are rooms behind it.

Clear inset view of the fictional building arrangement, rather than a second complex map. A barred street-level shop window, an upper connecting landing and an arched passage beside the shop are shown in one coherent cutaway. The connecting door was boarded shut before the flood. Anya: There's an old door between the upstairs landings. We never use it.

Cut inside the rear house. Pavel has prised loose the boards across that existing wooden door. A crowbar lies on the dry upper landing. Behind him are the seamstress, her son and the injured lodger. The staircase down to the street has broken away below them. Pavel: I found three people in here!

Back on the stone landing, Karen traces the courtyard passage on Anya's plan. Yakov recognises where its street entrance lies, around the building's right-hand corner. Karen: He's showing us another way in.

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On a sheltered part of the stone landing, Anya draws a simple plan on a scrap of wrapping paper with a printer's pencil. The others look down at it from the same side. Overhead composition: front building at bottom, rear house at top, courtyard between them, passage along the right. No one holds the drawing facing away from themselves.
Anya: The shop is in front. There are rooms behind it.

Clear inset view of the fictional building arrangement, rather than a second complex map. A barred street-level shop window, an upper connecting landing and an arched passage beside the shop are shown in one coherent cutaway. The connecting door was boarded shut before the flood.
Anya: There's an old door between the upstairs landings. We never use it.

Cut inside the rear house. Pavel has prised loose the boards across that existing wooden door. A crowbar lies on the dry upper landing. Behind him are the seamstress, her son and the injured lodger. The staircase down to the street has broken away below them.
Pavel: I found three people in here!

Back on the stone landing, Karen traces the courtyard passage on Anya's plan. Yakov recognises where its street entrance lies, around the building's right-hand corner.
Karen: He's showing us another way in.