Survivors will tell: When the lights went out, they went all at once; not a guttering of candles but the fall of some great shadow. They'll say that it was darkest in the Chantry. They won't have seen it for themselves.
There'd been scratching at the door, and a girlish voice. Please help, I'm pinned. It'd taken an axe to clear the makeshift barricade. Noisy work. Through it all, small reassurances, simple questions. Simple answers.
When the lights went out, The voice said, They went out all at once.
It's silent now. The storeroom packs with the dead, slumped atop each other in the way of people first afraid, then very afraid. Something's been chewing at them. Walls score with claws. Cedric hangs back, lifting his anchor as lantern. Briefly, something shifts —
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There'd been scratching at the door, and a girlish voice. Please help, I'm pinned. It'd taken an axe to clear the makeshift barricade. Noisy work. Through it all, small reassurances, simple questions. Simple answers.
When the lights went out, The voice said, They went out all at once.
It's silent now. The storeroom packs with the dead, slumped atop each other in the way of people first afraid, then very afraid. Something's been chewing at them. Walls score with claws. Cedric hangs back, lifting his anchor as lantern. Briefly, something shifts —
Trick of the eye. The room is very still.