"What's on the third floor?" Val asked her new boss. "What third floor?" This being her first day, she laughed and excused herself for being wrong. But on her way down the stairs at the end of the day, her gaze lingered on a stairwell that continued up. In the elevator the next morning, she stared at the button labeled "3."

A couple weeks later, she encountered the janitor in the stairwell. "What's on the third floor?" she asked.

"There's no third floor," he said. "Just the roof, miss. No reason for you to go up there." He watched until she left, but she crept up the stairs later and confirmed a door labeled "3," and another flight up to the roof.

Val asked a few coworkers, but no one admitted the third floor existed. At the end of her third week, she worked until everyone else had left. Alone, she climbed the stairs and opened the door.

If Val finds a secret, magical land that exists only for her, turn to page 53.

If she discovers a place where her nightmares come true, turn to page 14.

If she ends up uncovering a global conspiracy, turn to page 22.