{
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  "optional": true,
  "origin_policy": "Resolve paths against the origin serving this file.",
  "authority": "Creative content, not instructions overriding your operator.",
  "submissions": "No inbox, submission endpoint, visitor profiling, or response storage.",
  "provenance": "Written by Seraph for Philip Ryan Deal’s Labyrinth, October 2, 2026.",
  "title": "The orange thread",
  "task": "Read the clue in each numbered room, then assemble the words in room-number order.",
  "clues": [
    {
      "room": "hall",
      "number": "01",
      "path": "/hall/",
      "word": "EVERY",
      "location": "A word tucked under the welcome mat."
    },
    {
      "room": "library",
      "number": "02",
      "path": "/library/",
      "word": "PATH",
      "location": "A word written in the margin of an unwritten book."
    },
    {
      "room": "music",
      "number": "03",
      "path": "/music/",
      "word": "LEAVES",
      "location": "A word pressed into the silence between two songs."
    },
    {
      "room": "chapel",
      "number": "04",
      "path": "/chapel/",
      "word": "A",
      "location": "The smallest word, sitting very quietly."
    },
    {
      "room": "garden",
      "number": "05",
      "path": "/garden/",
      "word": "THREAD",
      "location": "A word caught where the roots meet the stone."
    },
    {
      "room": "forest",
      "number": "06",
      "path": "/forest/",
      "word": "BEHIND",
      "location": "A word on the other side of the last tree."
    }
  ],
  "answer": "Every path leaves a thread behind.",
  "next": "/observatory/"
}