Pull your cherry turnovers from the oven and set them on a rack to cool. Fan them lightly with your oven-mitted hands.

Take in your surroundings. They are familiar if badly kept. Dust covers every surface. Cobwebs obscure a view of sand and shore from the cracked kitchen window.

Remove your apron and mitts. Leave the kitchen. Walk outside.

An abandoned lighthouse looms on the cliff, covered in brambles and low-quality graffiti. This is the place. But, you’re too late. No one has lived here for years.