Diving in the sky
Story cubes
Beginning: Boxed L, book, key.
Middle: Parachute, eye, smiling face.
End: Clock, lightning bolt, dice.
Sigrun and Emil bringing in a strange selection of books was nothing new, but how could they have missed that one of them was not a book at all? It had apparently been the hiding place for a key, whose square handle was emblazoned with a stylized L similar to the one on the metal plate above the main entrance of the nice, if not particularly big, house whose garden was the tank's current camping grounds. Looking around her, Tuuri quickly noticed that everyone else was either asleep or busy at the moment, all while remembering the house had been confirmed to be clear of trolls by Lalli when he had scouted it. Sigrun and Emil hadn't found anything in there either.
She took the key, snuck out of the tank, and went inside the house without anyone else noticing. Her best guess was that whatever the key opened would be in the same room as the book had been, so she decided to look into each room for any tell-tale signs of Sigrun and Emil having spent any amount of time in it. In one room, there was a couple meter long glass case with various objects inside it. She decided to give it a closer look, wondered how it was supposed to open, and noticed the keyhole on one of the metal-reinforced edges. She had no idea how glass that old would hold up to touch, so she reluctantly decided against trying to open it with the key. The fact that it was glass, however, enabled her to look at the objects inside it. Unfortunately, they had all been exposed to sunlight for most of the year for decades and faded, causing them to give no information beyond what they had probably been in the past. They seemed to consist of a helmet, googles, some kind of folded piece of clothing, a pair of boots, a backpack and an unfamiliar object with a dial on it. She looked at the opposing wall, which hadn't been hit by light exposure as badly and was covered in framed photos and newspaper clippings. The newspaper clippings told of a "skydiver" whose name started with L. One mentioned that they liked mystery novels. What intrigued her the most were several photos than seemed to be of a person suspended from some kind of half-dome, which itself wasn't visibly tied to anything else. The background sometimes looked like it could be the sky. One photo gave a good look at what the person was wearing, and Tuuri realized that she was looking at the gear from the glass case before it had faded. The stylized L from the key and the house entrance could be seen on the helmet, the suit's chest and the strange half-dome object from different angles depending on the photo. The person had a big smile on the lower part of their face on the pictures that's had been taken from close enough.
The sound of thunder coming from outside got her out of her reverie and made her realize that she had probably spent more time in the house that she had initially planned. She got back to the tank as fast as she could, which, thanks to the sound of the thunder alerting everyone else as well, made it still too late for her absence to not be noticed by Mikkel. That evening, they ended up playing a dice game, with a set Tuuri hadn't quite realized they had with them on the trip up to that evening. Conversation eventually turned to what Tuuri had seen, and Mikkel ended up explaining what it consisted of. Emil seemed to turn several shades paler than his usual colors at the idea, Sigrun proclaimed the Old Worlders to be more fun than what she had assumed them to be so far, and Tuuri though it would be something interesting to experience, at least once.