<a class="link link--external" href="https://www.sex.com/pin/60718833-angel-small-comic-nerd/" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">Mira Newkirk</a><br/><br/>To Mira, the garden itself was ominous, the once well tended flowers and plants now overgrown, a whorl of bright blooming flowers, green vines, and brown dead stalk that had been strangled by their neighbors in the competition for water, nutrients and light, a neverending cycle of lives competing with one another resulting in death.  She pulled out her notebook to write that though down, feeling it had some artistic value. Something rustled in the undergrowth that caused her let out a muted "EEEP" of surprise and fear. She wasn't sure what it had been, but considering how long the building had been abandoned she could imagine the place was crawling with rats. She HATED rats. She reached out to grab Baxter's arm but didn't realize that her brother was already fiddling with the back door, seemingly determined to see the artwork inside and not at all interested in the garden. Instead she realized the had hugged Gilly from the side, and quickly backed up, clearly embarrassed, staring at her shoes. "Sorry... there was...Sorry." she managed, her face flushed.<br/><br/><br/><br/><a class="link link--external" href="https://imgur.com/tXMaXBE" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">Baxter Newkirk</a><br/><br/>Baxter was uninterested in the garden. There were times he could appreciate a well tended garden or park, but this wasn't a well tended garden and he was more interested in what was inside. Moving to the door he gave it a glance over. Touching the cold brass handle and giving it a twist it was clear that the door wasn't locked, but the door still open. Looking at the frame it seemed as though the wood of the door itself had swollen from water getting through from years of disrepair.<br/><br/>CLosing his eyes he twisted the knob and began to push, a vein stood out on his neck and he gritted his teeth until with a *CRACK* part of the door splintered off the top against the frame and a dark hallway was revealed as the door swung open.