CHAPTER 79Josyff stepped back as the noise resonated around the room. It echoed all about him, pressing in on him, making him feel as though he were the source of it.
His mind clutched for explanations. What could have struck the door like that? It was no peevish blow of the fist, nor even a hammer blow. Yet there was no room on the stairs for anything bigger — and whatever made that noise, was big!
There was a second blow. He placed a hand on the wall to steady himself. It was shaking with the impact.
This was not possible — not in thick stone walls like these.
Unless the whole tower was moving! But that couldn’t be, surely?
A brief vision of being crushed by this room as it collapsed and tumbled through the rooftops below made him glance round quickly, looking for cracks appearing i
