The silence was ringing in his ear, it is as if his ear has a string that sends data to his mind. when there is no data to receive it stays still it sends a single frequency sound. He calls it the ringing sound. It was just one more thing to add upon his current predicament.

Calming himself and breathing slowly and continuously, he looked to the center of the room, maybe he can find an exit there. Unlikely but better than nothing. Walking slowly and to feel the ground he took off his sandals and set them aside.

He reached the middle of the room and finds something interesting. It was as if one of the tiles extended upwards to form an elongated rectangular box. It reached the height of his hip. At the top was nothing. Just a normal lifted tile. He searched all the sides to find something. Anything. But nothing was to be found.

“Dammit” he voiced out.

He extended a hand trying to reach the end of the room. Then tried to find his sandals, after all his feet were getting cold.

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“What the... where are they... I left them right here?!” from his right, he heard some shuffling and then the steps of his sandals stomping on the ground.

I am not alone in here...

as fast as he could he covered his mouth. His heart thumping like a damned pump. His imagination kicked into full gear. Imagining all sorts of stuff around. Paranoid by the silence and realization that he wasn’t alone in here.

There is someone here. Something...

He tried his best to stay away from the footsteps. They were slowly reaching for him. The darkness didn’t help one bit. Only fueling his imagination with wild demons and ghosts.

“Ka Ka Ka...”

It spoke something. as I was facing this something from my right something else voiced out.

“Shushhhhh”

I didn’t even see them, they were hiding, can they can see me? They were there all of the ti-

He had bumped into the wall. On cue, the things started to reveal themselves. Knowing that their prey is now cornered and has nowhere to go.

First appeared a small blob of light, then another. And then spread to form something akin to an eye in shape of a twisted V with an orange tint all the way to the back of its head. From each creature one glowing white hand appeared, the glow fading to black around their skinny wrists, it was as if their hands were on white fire.

“Ke Ke Kee...”