This week's drabble challenge is staircase, suggested by
snoworb.
Responses to the drabble challenge may be drabbles (exactly 100 words), drabble-and-a-half (150 words), double drabbles (200 words), or a series of drabbles (related responses, each 100 words). Drabble challenges run for one week. This one ends 17 October 2013.