<a class="link link--external" href="https://celebmafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/mellisa-clarke-photoshoot-for-disturbia-clothing-2017-30.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank"><i>Jamie</i></a>&<a class="link link--external" href="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b6/8c/97/b68c9794d4e5adb4f58c652783eca301--androgynous-models-beautiful-boys.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank"><i>Gilly</i></a><br/><hr class="bbc-hr bbc-hr--3"/><br/>"No need to be sorry," Gilly said as Mira detached herself from him.<br/>"Given the history of this place I think we're all a bit on edge here," he added with a smile that was meant to be comforting but perhaps didn't quite come off as such.<br/>He glanced over at Jamie to see if she was on edge as well. He knew very little about her life beyond what she had told him about the abuse she had been put through growing up in the foster care system, and veiled hints that she had seen things that would make most people's hair grow white in a flash, things most people couldn't imagine even in their worst nightmares. Jamie seemed to be on some sort of cautious alert, subtly scanning the undergrowth and the fruit trees of the garden while at the same time playing it cool, but she did not seem to be on edge. If anything she seemed calm and collected.<br/><br/>Once the door was cracked open the hallway was indeed dark. It was the kind of darkness that even the dark itself might be afraid of. Jamie took her phone out of her pocket and turned on the flashlight. It made little difference and she couldn't help but wonder just how Gilly and Baxter intended to look at art in this absence of light. Gilly often talked endlessly of the importance of light in art, how the representation of light could often be considered more important than the actual subject of a painting.<br/>"Anyone bring actual flashlights?" she asked and threw a small pebble into the dark, listening as it bounced and came to a halt before sh took a step inside, carefully feeling her way with the tips of her toes.<br/>"I seriously doubt any electricity that may have been installed is working anymore."