Quick as a Flash

"How did you do that?" Astra says. "And what is it?"

"It's a torch," Josh - who is bilingual in American and British English - says. He switches it on. "See?"

"Oh how clever!" Astra says, her anger with Scott quite forgotten. "I was expecting a stick with combustible material at one end. This is much better. Give it to me, and I'll shine it into the keyhole."

1. Astra is able to diagnose the problem with the lock.
2. Astra can't see anything obviously amiss.
3. Astra is disconcerted to see an eye looking back through the keyhole at her.
4. Before she can look...

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