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He gestured to the door "Just a door"

"What?"

"Making the noise False alarm"

"But I heard footsteps Just like when you were up here"

He shrugged "I know I thought I heard that too But there’s nothing here, just like there wasn’t anything here earlier"

He shined his light up the staircase "I never h I bet that’s where he is"

"He?" I asked,Who the hell was he?

"Old Roddy," Dex said simply and started for the stairs

I reached out and grabbed his arm firmly It felt nice There was muscle under there after all

"Who the hell is Old Roddy?" I said angrily I was sick of feeling like I wasn’t being told the whole story

Dex was silent I shinedhim to squint harshly

"If you don’t know then I don’t have tihtness He eyed o

"Make time," I said

Then, from above, another thump This time much louder than before It definitely was not the sound of a door banging in the wind

Dex stiffened at the sound He looked at o of his arm

He leaned in and pointed above

"Old Roddy is the lighthouse keeper"

I didn’t get it

"There is no lighthouse keeper here My uncle doesn’t eht up there," I said

"Yeah, well, rumor has it that Old Roddy’s been here all this ti is that?"

"About eighty years, maybe more, maybe less"

"That’s impossible," I scoffed

"I know Like I said, that’s why I’m here"

I took in a slow, deep breath Whatever Dex was saying wasn’tany sense to me, and even worse, the more I tried to make sense of it, the uy, it was all too much for me to process And unfortunately, whenon around me, my panic attacks start to kick in and weird shit happens

"I need to go lie down," I said quietly

He cocked his head, curious, and reached out forsqueeze, though, which any normal person would have done He just pulled ht of stairs until ere now on the floor above, where the last few thumps had come from

With my breath and heart stuck in my throat, Dex illuminated the level It looked exactly like the one below it, save for a desk in the corner The doors were also closed And no lighthouse keeper was to be found

Suffice to say, I had a bad feeling about all of this Whether it was due to the creepiness of the whole situation or that I should probably head back before people started to worry aboutto question the sanity of Dex and his quest for sohthouse keeper who clearly didn’t exist

"You know--," I started to say

I was interrupted by the door, which blasted open (by itself again) and swung back and forth wildly on its hinges, connecting against the ith a BANG

"What the fuck?" I yelled above the noise It was literally the only thought I had in my head

Dex took a curious step towards the anihis hair

He ailow adding to the mystery, and then shone it on me

"What do youme?" I yelled

BANG!