You pull back the curtain and enter the semi-darkness.

You are in a dim corridor made of black partitions that are not much taller than you. You reach out and touch one. It wobbles as you push against it. Sounds of laugher and conversation echo around you, with the muffled noise of the fair in the background. Two boys enter and rush past.

‘This is gonna be so lame,’ one of them assures the other. They both laugh.

The boys disappear around the corner and you feel silly for being scared. You smile to yourself and head into the maze.

It is one featureless black corridor after another, with junctions and the occasional dead end. Every now and then, you see the top of somebody’s head over the partitions, or you notice the wall wobble beside you as someone runs past on the other side. It really is a little bit lame.

A group of girls come up behind you but go in the other direction at the junction.

After a few minutes, you begin to wonder how big the maze is. The building didn’t look all that large from the outside. Surely you should have come out the other side by now? Unless you’re going in circles.

You realise now it’s been a while since you’ve seen anyone.

A few more minutes pass and you notice that you can’t hear anything. No laughter. No voices. Has everyone else found a way out?

Then you hear a banging sound. Cautiously, you peer around a corner.

A short corridor leads to a small, square room. Inside, someone is hammering their fist against a wall. It’s the girl who knocked into you outside the maze. You keep back and watch.

She raps her knuckles along the edge of one of the partitions. The partitions! They are a lot taller in this section of the maze, reaching up to the ceiling. You lean against the wall. It doesn’t move.

You look into the room. The girl kicks the wall in frustration, before taking a deep breath and resuming her knocking.

You’re feeling a little uneasy now. Perhaps it’s time to get out of this maze and find your parents? But you are curious about the girl.

Do you approach her and find out what she’s doing? Go here.

Or do you continue on and try to escape this maze? Go here.