a needle and three labelled stops; a fourth left as a hyphen, in case a room is added or remembered. push the lever; a small bell rings a long way off.
press scullery and the scullery stirs; press parlour and the parlour answers slowly; press larder and someone in the larder looks up, then back down again. some messages never reach an ear.
field-note · the bell wire is taut; the bell, somewhere, is silent for now.