having known them for scarcely a week yet well aware of the dangerous times they lived in, after gustav's disappearance monty took care to leave his house to the baudelaire children. he hoped that should something happen to him, the children would remain together, and he knew that they would one day need a home.

nearly four years after they last left it, the four baudelaires walk into the house of a guardian who tried his best to make them feel loved in the short time they had together. almost untouched since the death of it's previous owner, the dust is layered an inch thick and the doors of the empty cages hang open. it's a bittersweet day for violet, klaus and sunny. they go into each room together. the kitchen, the library, a quick peek into the reptile room, and up the stairs into their bedrooms. one of the tacks has fallen out of the large white sheet of paper violet and monty had hung together, and the page droops down as though to try and pick it back up again. klaus's armchair expels a cloud of dust when he goes to sit on it. in sunny's room some of the hard toys she shared with the incredibly deadly viper shows bite marks that weren't there before. books lie scattered on the study table from quigley quagmire's brief stay, and monty's bags are packed for a ship that set sail without him.