[ WP ] Day after day , he works in the tiny boutique . Very few customers actually come in , leaving him lonely and bored . As he does in the middle of each day , when there are no customers in the store , he heads into the back room ... and up into the attic storage room .

Henry surveyed the dusty, four-cornered shop through his thin, horn-rimmed spectacles. No matter how much he cleaned, the shop was always filthy. He folded a blue microfiber cloth into a neat square, and began wiping random surfaces vigorously, his daily routine. 
 
 Sometimes he pretended there were customers in the store, and spent hours dreaming up conversations that existed solely within his mind. Today was one of those days. 
 
 “ Excuse me good sir, I, Sir Willy of Boredomshire, am in search of your finest baby carrot, ” Henry inquired with a most regal voice. 
 
 “ Why yes your majesty, right this way. ” Henry twirled over to the appliance section, gesturing with his broom, knocking his knee against the shop ’ s rickety staircase. 
 
 Wait, I ’ ve no memory of this staircase here. 
 
 “ Looks like theres only one thing to do, matey, ” snarled Captain Henry. “ All aboard! ” 
 
 When he finally huffed his way to the room at the top of the stairs, Henry lit up space with his iPhone. 
 
 “ Hoo boy, I think I ’ m getting goosebumps Scooby, ” crowed Henry to no one in particular. The attic was empty, save for a clumsy pile of antiques in the corner. 
 
 As Henry squinted his eyes in the dark, he noticed a cage in the pile. He tip-toed his away across the room, every step brimming with the idea of a mystery to solve. 
 
 His mind was racing, and his excitement exploding. What awaits under all this junk, he wondered. 
 
 With a great twist of his torso, he pulled the cover off the antiques only to reveal a cage. The steel bars were wrapped by a thick, rusty chain. It was large enough to fit a tiger. 
 
 Henry peered inside the cage, his skin turning white, and every hair on his body standing erect. 
 
 “ How, how is this possible. ” 
 
 There was a big pile of tiger shit in the cage. 
 

