The Widow's House

Travelers have spoken of the Widow's House for longer than anyone can remember. Stories describe a solitary woman who sometimes welcomes lost travelers inside, offering warm food, a place beside the fire and directions back to the road.

Descriptions of the widow rarely agree. Some remember an elderly woman dressed in black, others a young woman with long hair, and a few insist they never saw anyone at all despite finding food waiting on the table.

Strangest of all, accounts describing the house exist generations apart, yet the cottage itself never seems to change.

Mystery Hook — The Guest Book

Inside the cottage, the party discovers an old guest book filled with names and short messages left by travelers who stayed there.

The newest entries are recent.

As they turn further back, the dates stretch across decades, then more than a century.

The same handwriting occasionally appears between them:

“They arrived safely.”

Near the back of the book, the party finds an entry describing their own arrival at the house.

It was written three days ago.