Adventure of Rage 2

A deep exhalation rolls through the servants’ passage. Several torches gutter out, and dust sifts from the ceiling as the old iron-bound door shudders.

At the stair’s foot, a black seam opens beneath the door. Cold air spills through it, carrying whispers too low to distinguish from the stones’ groaning.

The abductor guarding the wounded scarred woman freezes. Behind Rage, Scarlett grips her sleeve, while the other fleeing abductor vanishes down the lower stair.

The whispers gather into a wet, breathless murmur. Beneath the iron, something scratches once, then waits, while the wounded woman struggles to raise herself against the wall.