The door opens easily onto another darkened room. This one is large and due to the angle involved only a small amount of the already fading light from the first room penetrates this far, the short slash of floor revealed is smooth wood of a deep, vivid red. Something about the dark against the polished red sheen of the floor is obscene and sends an odd, goose-bump raising shiver along your skin. You hear something move in the dark..a slight thump...maybe Robert trying to move in the dark?<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=21822.msg881885#msg881885">Quote from: coglio001 on 17-10-2008, 21:51:46</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Rene froze, her eyes growing wide. She was so still she could hear her own breathing. "Robert?" she called softly. Then, louder, "Robert!"<br/><br/>The hallway was very short, there was no place he could have gone. She glanced back at the bedroom, then back to the room they had come from, but no Robert.<br/><br/>"What the hell?" she murmured, her heart hammering in her chest.<br/><br/>In the hall, she looked to the door on the left. <em>He must have gone through,</em> she thought. <em>I just didn't hear the door. That's all it is.</em><br/><br/>Her hand trembling, Rene approached the door and tried to open it.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>