Words are powerful. Anyone who has spoken knows the weight that they carry. They create and draw out emotion, cover and reveal the truth, stir armies and placate masses. Words are the articulation of thought, and thoughts are what rise from the depths of the soul. A person in possession of the right words can move mountains.<br/><br/>So it was little wonder, then, that as Rainie spoke the inscription out loud something<span style="font-style: italic">shifted</span>. The house issued a sighing creek that shivered down through the bones of the structure and a distant boom resounded through the otherwise silent air, making the floor underneath tremble slightly as if something large had fallen over in another room. Wind howled through the cracks in the house's exterior, and then there was an oppressive silence.<br/><br/>Down the eastern hall, unobtrusively, a door crept open.