[5: if you are reading this...]

"If you are reading this, you are one of the few. Join us in the the foyer
at 3:15." Maura read slowly, translating. 

"I think that's what it says. My German isn't that good yet." 

The guidebook that the museum attendant had handed them was definitely
unusual. Right away, she knew that something was afoot. Groups of tourists
had passed by the little booth, paid their thirty marks and listlessly
received their pamphlets and hand stamps with little more than a 'Danke'.
They had stopped and waited for the crowds to pass, and Maura had talked to
the attendant for what had seemed to Janet to be forever, her painstaking
German making the young woman running the booth laugh at times.

The pamphlet they received looked older, a bit tattered. The same design as
the glossy papers that the other tourists had, but not so shiny. 

"Left up here." Maura alternated looking at the beams and arches that held
the castle up and staring at the guidebook, soundlessly mouthing words as
she read.

"Are you sure? Everyone else is going right down that hallway."

"It says left!"

Janet wished she'd spent more time studying the language for this trip, but
the plans had been last minute. Maura's boyfriend had left, unceremoniously,
and Maura had wanted someone to come with her.