Part 1: Episode 2 - The Start

Kimberly was daydreaming while she ran her white and green chequered cloth over the last dish in the pile, reaching for a nearby towel to start drying them. Poor water quality, due to the continuing drought (or so the media has said), meant that the water supply for Brisbane had gone to a dark brownish colour, and this was very disconcerting when that’s the water you drink and bathe with. The view from the one-bedroom apartment where she lived was not necessarily fantastic, mesmerizing, or at all glorious; it was completely mundane, yet somehow transfixing.
What immediately caught her attention in the middle of the wall was a picture of a homeboy character, with two large guns and an almost sadistic smile behind his face, as if something was behind him or inside him. The picture was so well made that a painted shadow almost appeared to move. Kimberly looked at it and it did move for a moment, so she shut her eyes and opened them again. Kimberly, stopped the dishes and opened a nearby cupboard door with a label on it:
DO NOT ENTER!
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