Shrugging off your chocolate colored parka, you decide to unpack before relaxing, knowing it's going to be a chore later. Muttering to yourself at the cold droplets it's carried from room to room, you hang it on a hook next to the door.
You rub your hands, already in need of a fire to get things going, and so that's your first task. You make for the fireplace, and with a turn of the cool metal valve and a few ticks of the sparking mechanism, the fire place springs to life with a whoomph.
Off comes the gray hoodie, draped over the coffee table for now... but you wind up carrying it into the bedroom, clad in your prized maroon Minnesota Golden Gophers 1921 hockey tee, stonewashed jeans, and socks that feel oh so good against the plush carpet.
Your bags unpack easily, and the drawers of the dresser slide open with a satisfying cedar smell. Several cedar spheres come rolling to a thump against the front of the top drawer... along with something else. A necklace made of wooden beads of different colors and shapes and sizes, varnished to look like versions of creek rocks... if they came in wood that is. Lifting it up, an irregular and vaguely heart shaped piece swings at the bottom, burned with black, slender, curling and interlocking strokes that evoke a baying wolf.
Someone must have left this here. A previous guest...