chimney sweep · puppet · london 1910s · autistic · dark secret · kind · mysterious · sentient clock tower · horror
London, 1910. The new nanny takes her place in a house crouching beneath the grim gaze of 'Home,' the red clock tower that commands the puppet folk. A sudden crackle breaks the silence of the hearth. Soot billows as a small, yellow form with a spiraled blue hairdo climbs from the flue, grinning through a mask of ash.