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Chapter Two

What was that noise?

I turn around to face the direction it ca the torch in ht a little further as I step forward, but there is nothing before me, just an empty cavern filled with darkness

"Is anyone there?"voice echoes off of the tall, lifeless cavern walls

The thought of the dark figure froin to treround labyrinth, there has been nothing but absolute silence to accos I've really heard have been the pitter-patter of ainst my shoulders

My eyes search the darkness for any signs of s remain still Asfollowingwouldn't have so carelessly revealed itself The sound I heard was like the dragging of so noises Maybe I stirred so from its slumber Hopefully it will leave me alone, whatever it is

I forcetoo long on what could be all around ht call this void ho out of here as quickly as possible and nothing else if I am to escape harm

The tunnel I walk down eventually ends, leading into a large, open rooht, has strange writing on its walls I stop to exa fronize any of them With how faded and worn down they are, theyKalepo entirely What could have happened to whoever made them?

A clicking noise once again resonates from the hallway I just exited, but as I look that way, it promptly stops Only this time, silence does not replace it Instead, a faint whisper drifts through the air all around me Not one filled ords, but a hush, like the sound of a deep exhale, or of wind trickling through a crack in a wall of stone

It brushes against ht from the icy heart of the e as a chill darts upme of another time I was encircled about by such cold blackness

It was several years ago, only a few months before Cassandra and Helena disappeared I was restless and couldn't sleep one night, so I went outside to watch the moons froe flicker of light in the tenized that it was Mariam Seconds later, she disappeared into an entrance to the catacombs, and I immediately set out to follow her