>>85540453I take another step.
Slowly, I enter the hallway.
The corridor reeks of the terrible smell.
A raw smell. The smell of beasts.
That, and a grinding sound coming from somewhere.
There's been a stinging pain in my neck for a while now.
The darkness is frightening.
This silence is frightening.
...... To find out what happened here is more frightening than anything else.
The pain from the back of my neck running to the top of my spine holds back my nervousness.
That throbbing pain,
it's the price of my desperate attempts to repress the urge to just scream and flee.
My breathing goes wild.
My body is drenched in sweat.
...... Knife in hand, I am unable to take another step.
I have the feeling that if I were to move even a little, I would see something unimaginably horrible.
