Juno shrugged. It WAS a little odd for someone to keep a room of the house locked if no one was in it...but even a little time on the police force had taught her that people did odd things sometimes, for perfectly innocent reasons, or no reason at all. Her first partner had told her that 'if everything that looked like a clue was a clue, we'd all be in jail.'
Still, this was no ordinary house, and their quarry was no ordinary girl. And the leads they'd found so far were rice-paper thin.
"Just to warn you," Juno explained as she went down the hall to the locked door, "if this thing doesn't open with the front door key, and isn't the cheapass kind of lock you can pop open with a pin, chances are we're not getting in. I don't want to break the door down until we're desperate."
She fished the house key out of her pocket and tried it on the little keyhole in the doorknob, wiggling it gently.
Still, this was no ordinary house, and their quarry was no ordinary girl. And the leads they'd found so far were rice-paper thin.
"Just to warn you," Juno explained as she went down the hall to the locked door, "if this thing doesn't open with the front door key, and isn't the cheapass kind of lock you can pop open with a pin, chances are we're not getting in. I don't want to break the door down until we're desperate."
She fished the house key out of her pocket and tried it on the little keyhole in the doorknob, wiggling it gently.