Cassius dragged Morpheus down to the lowest level of the winding staircase, descending into the darkness below in a blur of movement. He had slammed Morpheus to the ground, his silver blade drawn and pressed cold against Morpheus's throat. Despite that as he fell, she could see the smile over Morpheus's lips which sent her into a shiver.
Silence ensued immediately after the two body fell forward in front of her, filling the basement with nothing but a grim sound of nothingness.
In a second that felt like hour, it was as though the world had fallen into a dead quietness. She could hear no footsteps, no sound of struggle, nothing at all which is all the more weird as they had fallen into the basement to fight each other to death.
She stood frozen at the top of the stairs, the silence thickening by second which made her chest to tighten with dread.
She waited. One second, then two before she rushed downstairs, despite the dread surrounding what's down there.
