The worn out sofa, its cushions fraying at the edges and once holly green covers covered in a grey film, stood like a bold statement in the otherwise empty room. He had seen this sofa before, recognised its contours, but couldn't place it or remember why this piece of furniture was so familiar and yet so distant in his memories. Slowly he walked towards it, leaving foot prints upon the grimy ground, and ran his curious fingers over the seats. Dust…..the film covering the sofa was dust like a big grainy blanket, and it was everywhere. It clung to his fingers as he left snail like trails on the grey green before him, the particles shooting violently into the air angry at the disturbance, clogging his airway as he took a sharp intake of breath. It covered the peeling walls and caked the cracking floor like an ominous shroud. The air was thick with it.

Dazed he brought his dusty finger to his lips and wiped them over his mouth, licked at them nervously and tasted vodka and musty decay. It felt wrong, this room felt wrong and he felt wrong. The vague feeling that something bad had happened here crept into his mind, but for the life of him he couldn't remember what had happened, or what was about to. As he tired to dig through his memories voices welled up from behind two doors that were not there before, one demanding and the other pleading. Both voices were at once familiar and disguised, giving him the conclusion that the dust must somehow be messing with his judgement. It was in this moment he knew he had to leave right now, needed to get away or else he'd be swallowed up by this dusty room forever. But which door to take? He looked at both of the doors facing on opposite walls from each other. Left or right…? He couldn't decide.

Then almost as soon as they came both voices stopped, leaving an uncomfortable silence behind to accompany him in this dying room, before the silence turned to low whine, and the whine into a deafening roar. Arthur screamed as the room shattered into a million bright slithers and burnt his flesh away.