[ FF ] - 250 Words ; 2 months Reddit Gold prize

It was another cold day. `` What is it, girl? What have you found?'' The young Golden had been digging again and brought another present for master. She sat there grinning, tail wagging. John crouched down to inspect the catch and was greeted by a low growl. `` Easy girl. What you got there.'' 
 
 `` Another bird?'' Came a voice from the kitchen. 
 
 `` Nah man, no blood... Or feathers.'' John reached down carefully for the object in her maw 
 His sudden grasp sent the dog into a frenzy of growls as the game ensued. `` No girl! Drop it... Drop it!'' She finally released her prize, yet still grinned. An old cloth wrapped tightly with coiled twine, wet with dew and drool. It cut easily by his knife and spun away leaving limp cloth. 
 
 Jake had come to witness the unwrapping. `` Did she finally get one of the neighbors cats?'' 
 
 `` It's not a cat. Its... What in the hell?'' 
 
 A key. Large and ornate, it had an elaborate `` J.H.'' engraved on the side. Beneath it was an old parchment map. `` This is our town'' Said Jake, studying the map. He laid a pudgy finger on the'X'. `` That's the old factory.'''' There.'' 
 
 `` The factory?'' John knew where this was going. `` That's been shut down for years. Too many accidents. Anyway, how would an key from an abandoned factory end up here, a full ten miles away?'' 
 
 Jake got that smile he always got when up to no good. `` Why do n't we go find out?''
