The girls didn't just find a hiding place. They found an escape route, for behind the old chalkboard was a reasonably well-sized hole on the wall, leading to another room, slightly more illuminated.
This room was different from the one before, but only in that there were no pretenses about it: this definitely wasn't a classroom, but an old room that served some old, perhaps less didactic purpose. It was long and had polished, lacquered floors that made way to a small, lifted surface, standing a step higher than the ground. This structure had an old, if ornate, paper screen behind it. It had paintings and patterns on them, but they were hard to see in the dark. Two, tall candlesticks were on each side of the screen, and directly in front of it was small, lifted wooden altar, which had a figure with a wooden sculpture on it, should the girls inspect close, appeared to be two bears performing an obscene act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_out). There was just enough space between the entangled bear tongues to fit a small object, perhaps a stick.
You have found the ALTAR OF URSINE OSCULATION. Go you.
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This room was different from the one before, but only in that there were no pretenses about it: this definitely wasn't a classroom, but an old room that served some old, perhaps less didactic purpose. It was long and had polished, lacquered floors that made way to a small, lifted surface, standing a step higher than the ground. This structure had an old, if ornate, paper screen behind it. It had paintings and patterns on them, but they were hard to see in the dark. Two, tall candlesticks were on each side of the screen, and directly in front of it was small, lifted wooden altar, which had a figure with a wooden sculpture on it, should the girls inspect close, appeared to be two bears performing an obscene act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_out). There was just enough space between the entangled bear tongues to fit a small object, perhaps a stick.
You have found the ALTAR OF URSINE OSCULATION. Go you.