I look around, taking my surroundings in. All over the walls, ornaments and unlit candles are sprawled. The corridor extends right and left, and the richness of the environment is almost gross.

"You were right. It really looks like some kind of manor."

"AAAAAAHHHH!"

The door just slammed close behind us with a bang, startling me and freaking Pewdie out. I turn around to look at it.

The wall is plain. The door has disappeared, leaving no trace of its former presence behind. What is with this building…?

"W-we better get moving."

"Right." I answer, before looking at Felix. "Where did you come from?"

He points to our right.

"From there. When I woke up, I was in a similar corridor, and since there was red light on my left, I aimed right. I turned a few corner."

"…and you found me."

"Yeah. I was walking when a ruckus echoed behind me and… all."

I look to the left.

"Let's continue exploring your aimed at direction then."

We get on moving, and walk. Felix looks behind us every two seconds. From time to time, I think I hear mice, or voices, but whenever I stop to listen more closely, with the movement quickly followed by Pewdie, only the silence echoes. So much stillness is disheartening.

After something like an hour, we reach a crossroad of corridors. Three options are offered to us: turning right or left, or going straight ahead.

"Where should we go?" I ask as I turn to my friend.

He seems lost deep in his thoughts, singing.

"Pewdie…?"

He doesn't react. He keeps on humming his child hymn, paying me no attention. After a few seconds, he stops and looks at me, pointing left.

"This way."

He takes the lead, seeming all mighty and proud. He turns around and waves at me.

"Come on."

I start moving, catching up to him easily.

"That's an… interesting way of choosing where to go."

"It's a children's refrain I learned in my early years. It's useful when I don't know where to or what to choose."

We get back at walking in this new corridor which is so similar to the last. A new atmosphere surrounds us, as Pewdie seems more cheerful than before the junction. He looks at me square in the eye, and doesn't seem as spooked by the mask I am forced to wear, even though I still feel some kind of malaise.

I reach up to my face, still unwilling to fully acknowledge its presence. If not by my hands touching it, there is no way for me to feel it on my face. It's like I'd be bare-faced. I can even feel the air touch my skin, and no light seems filtered by any sort of material. I really don't get this.

This corridor doesn't take long before leading us to a more open ground. In fact, as soon as we turn the first corner, we see a bit ahead an opening of some sort a bit further.

"Isn't it lit up there?" tries Pewdie.

"I think, yes."

We don't exchange any more thoughts as we keep on walking toward the source of the light. As we draw nearer to the opening, we begin to feel vibrations run up our legs. It's as if an earthquake was hitting at intervals. I can see Felix's stress build up, and, I have to admit, mine does as well.

We reach the opening's edge, and I sneak a look up left. As my eyes lay on a man's back, I open my mouth.

Wait. Where is his head? How come… How come I can't see it? It's can't be dead, it moves around. So, it has to be somewhere.

The thing turns heavily around, as if it was checking who was following it.

"Shit."

I get my head back under cover, and stare at Pewdie. In the end, I did find its head. If we can consider it is one. It has a unique eye in the middle of the chest, topping an enormous mouth filled with blade-like teeth.

"What's wrong, Cry?"

"Better not go that way."

"Why-" he starts as he moves his head to look.

He freezes at the sight of the beast, and I see him open his mouth. I grab him by the head, placing my hand on his mouth, and drag him back. I motion him to stay silent as I give a glance at the beast once again.

Our three eyes meet. I feel a chill run down my spine, and watch frozen as its blue eye precisely focuses on me. It opens its mouth fully in a silent cry, and starts running toward me. I turn back over to Pewdie:

"RUN."

No sooner said than done, I obey to my own order and leap forward. I look behind, and see Felix right behind me, white in fear, followed not much further back by the thing.

The first corner comes around and I turn it at full speed, almost dropping to my knees because of the speed. I pedal on the floor as fast I can and manage to stay standing, avoiding Pewdie by a centimeter as he bypasses me. I soon gather up my speed back, and start running full speed again as I hear the creature smash into the wall before turning and charging toward us again.

I see Pewdie looking back, inducing me to do the same. I turn my head and see the thing drawing nearer. I turn my head back and-

"WHaaa!"

Something grabs me by the shoulder and drags me out of the way of the beast. I roll on the floor, and hear a door close from where I was at a second ago. I get back to my senses fast, and sit, facing Felix and the now closed door, hearing the tremendous stepping of the golem fade outside.

"You okay, Ryan?"

I'm out of breath, and he is too, but all in all, I think we made it through quite good.

"I think we're safe now."

But he is not paying me anymore attention. His stare is on the room behind me. I turn around, and freeze.