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	Fortunately for Ilyssa, this hotel, set in a steampunk age, does in fact have a bathroom in each room, rather than a communal tub on the ground floor. How hygienically delightful. On any accord, her wooden tar-sealed tub has a lever-action pump to draw water from the hotels water source. Moving the iron lever up and down pumps water from the tap. It is a simple but effective design, yet can be slightly laboursome and somewhat noisy when a person is trying to sleep…. 

	Perhaps Ilyssa does not hear the initial pitter-patter of footsteps running by her bed while she’s sleeping. The footsteps trail their way into the bathroom and leave a track of bloody footprints in their wake. Ilyssa would, however, find it hard to sleep through the loud, repetitive squeaking grinds of the lever in the bathroom now vigorously moving up and down, pumping fresh water into the empty tub. 

	If Ilyssa rises from her bed and ventures into the bathroom to investigate, she will see that the lever appears to be moving on its own. She can see no one else, but she would likely see the obvious set of bloody footprints of what must be a smaller, invisible person standing by the tub. The water continues to pump until the tub is half full, at which point the lever stops moving.

	An instant later, the water in the tub makes a splash as though someone has indeed climbed in. The water in the tub then begins to cloud with blood as the sound of a young girl giggling echoes about the room.