❝ ----- did you HEAR that? it was like.... ❞ like heavy breathing, creaks of floorboards seemingly from all around and, hesitant as she was to admit to herself, something eerily close to a door clicking softly shut not far ahead of them in the half-lit darkness of the basement. could have just been the old pipes settling, or the others upstairs moving around ( sound traveled weirdly in old houses ; but that doesn’t stop PARANOIA setting in ). Sam shifts that little bit closer to the other blonde, casting about for the torch she’d plucked from the counter top before they descended in search of more candles for their ‘spooky movie fest’. her fingers are heavy on the torch handle, struggle to press the switch to cast a thin ray of light into the gloom. mouth pursed, Sam steeled her spine ( the sooner that found those freakin’ candles, the sooner they could LEAVE ). ❝ whatever. just uh, help me look in this corner. Josh said they’d be near the boiler. ❞