Crumbs and Consequences

The lighthouse keeper, Agata Brink, stepped out at dawn and left you — her brand-new assistant — in charge of the pantry. You blinked and a seagull named Nelson swallowed the pantry-door key whole. The tin of emergency ship-biscuits (and Agata's personal shortbread) is locked inside. Agata radios in at noon. You have four hours. Nelson is sitting on the windowsill looking absolutely unbothered.