Each breath was thick with damp mud, and the smell hit me more than anything else. To get over it, I took a few deep breaths.
"No one is forcing you to come down," Rhys remarked from the bottom of the ladder behind me.
"Would you mind just telling me what's going on down there?" Kate responded with a yes.
Waving my flashlight app about the room, I was still attempting to figure it out. Standing two feet away from the ladder's foot didn't help. Dark lumps against darker walls made all the shapes I could see difficult to interpret.
Only a square of light flowed down into the basement from the closet. It was enough to observe the cracking old mortar on the brick walls. There are no windows.
I took another sweep of the room, this time aiming lower. Wax trails ran down the sides of th
