The little cottage is perfect: humble and white-walled, just enough space for one or for two. The floor is pale stone covered in a layer of raffia matting which I’ll wager was woven not a hundred metres from here, if that. The furniture is crude and wooden and looks endlessly comfortable. There’s a sofa covered in cushions, a fireplace, and a beanbag chair close to the wood stacked up along the wall. Away in the corner is the only concession to modernity: a small desktop computer. Even from here, I can see Witnessed running on the screen, Stella’s avatar waiting patiently for her to return. It’s not the default, the detective, but the other one—the revolutionary. There are four or five other options, and I can see that all of them are open to her. You have to reach the level cap with one character to unlock the next, so Stella has played a lot.