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I turned and looked at the camera and mouthed my best out-of-synch Bruce Lee ion seeks path"

Then, feeling like an idiot, I ran over to and scooped it up I knew right then I would be showing this video to no one Even though the objective was reached,correctly (it had been a year sinceof a dork I was

I put the camera back around my neck and poked s into a coughing fit I aiht into the darkness and saw the broken boards on the ground in an e noise ca of dampness Near the back of the rooes I could barely make out as beyond that; it looked like it was the staircase that would lead to the top of the tower

There was souely fanition but came up short

There was a heavy stillness to the air inside despite the wind that was now freely entering fro and very otherworldly

I put my hands on the sill and pulled ht I swung s around clumsily and hopped down My feet landed in a ss I i inside

The air here was thick My breaths were cos The pressure inside was different too, causing my ears to throb

I shone the caht as if it was hungry That analogy made me shiver It was cold, too, and I hated the way the blackness felt behind ht I spun around No one was there, of course

My chest thumped wildly I breathed out slowly, deeply, and tried to steady my heart I felt like I just had to co in This really was not the best idea, was it?

I pointed the ca to take in thewitty about my soon-to-be cowardly exit when I heard a THUMP from above me

My heart literally froze My breath stopped with it

I listened hard, as if I strained enough I would sprout super ears

Another THUMP froe to vomit traveled up my body, from my toes to my lips It increased as the thu across the rooht wasn’t that it was a ghost or anything creepy like that, but so that could actually hurt you like a hthouse as his hideout Or his rape palace

I looked behind h No doubt the person, or thing, s to the cao But could I get to thebefore I was caught?

With the footsteps continuing quietly above , I carefully slinked e of it with my hand when an ominous shadow passed outside It happened so quickly that I didn’t see what it was but it was huainst the wall

I was fucked and I knew it I had stupidly wandered into some epic rape palace run by meth-addicted hobos and bald men with beards who recently escaped nearby jails and had taken over this place for their torture sessions with hapless young wo to be the hapless woman who decided to infiltrate their headquarters

In most movies, the heroine would poke her head over the sill to get a better gli on outside, but I knew if I did that, I’d be spotted right away

So, despite the fact that therepresented freedom and a way out of this hell hole, I slowly ht from the camera danced around the roo to be found I switched it off with a click and was quickly engulfed in total darkness

Of course, I knew that by turning off the light I was still letting people knohere I was, but at least in the dark I could hide if I needed to I started fishing around in my pockets to see if I had any weapons I didn’t I didn’t even have sharp nails I hoped my karate "skills" worked well on adrenaline

While trying to keep the urge to pass out at bay, I decided the best thing for o out into the hallway I was trapped in the dank rooh the only exit The footsteps froh I wasn’t sure when, and the hallway probably had another door or more s to escape out of

I inched as silently as possible to the doorframe and pokedexcept murky blackness, but after a while my eyes adjusted