Oakie's Attic: It Might Be So

 

    In the midafternoon light, Oakie sat in the beanbag chair watching the projector display the documentary onto the screen. If not for the bright sun beaming outside the window, the golden gleam of an object beneath the screen would not have attracted Oakie's attention. Placing her hands on the sides of the bean bag and rising up from the bag, Oakie adjusted her skirt, tilted her head curiously to the side, and moved towards the object. Hidden beneath a rolled up carpet, she moved it to the side to discover a compass. It couldn't have been used in hundreds of years.

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