the first occasion

[deepest_magic]

The house just northeast of Forks proper is very big, quite abandoned, and really easy to just walk right in if you're of a mind to. There are signs that people have been camping in it while hiking, but currently it is unoccupied by visitors, squatters, or any animals larger than a squirrel. There's been a fair amount of furniture but fewer small possessions left behind: couch, piano, dining table, wardrobe, armchair, kingsized bed. It's in extremely variable states of repair.

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[neverbeatme]

She filed this place away as a mystery to investigate when she was bored.

Well, now she is bored.

Elizabeth inspects the place closely, looking in particular for anywhere it might have been convenient for somebody to hide a body. (That is the likeliest possible reason why no one ever found the kid, after all.)

That wardrobe, for example! It seems pretty deep, and it's shut pretty firmly. Once she gets the door open, she's careful to wedge it that way with a reasonably sturdy chair before climbing inside past a surprisingly well-preserved selection of fur coats - she'd pull them out first if she thought there was actually a dead teenager in there, but odds are high that in any setting outside of a mystery novel somebody else would have found him by now.