Widow's Needle Lock
Trap disarm puzzle
Medium
By
Bookwyrm
A jewellery box whose keyhole hides a poisoned needle. Slide a probe past it without brushing the spring.
The widow of House Varr kept her letters in a lacquered box, and the box keeps its own counsel. Behind the keyhole a sprung needle waits, glistening, for anything that touches its trigger wire.
A bead of something green trembles on the needle's point.