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The wood that supported the asylum itself creaked and made sounds of buckling as we moved back to the top of the stairs and rounded the corner toward the other set of steps. The darkness hugged the world around us tighter now and threatened to choke the beauty from all that we looked upon. The further we moved toward the top of the other stairs on the second landing, the darker and more melancholy the asylum appeared. It was as though we had been taken to another world entirely which gave Edric and I pause before proceeding.
It was then in that choking blackness that I placed my foot upon the top step and then heard the sounds of running, naked feet some distance away from me. I turned to Edric only to see him perk up immediately as if he had witnessed an apparition.
“Delilah? Is that
