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CHAPTER 94
"Is this the place, we used to love? Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?"
- Somewhere Only We Know, Keane
Six years.
It had been six years.
I set off down the familiar streets, the snow was crunching under every step I took. Everything was barren, nothing was alive. There were no decorations, no colors, no festivities, it was the dead of night. Whenever I had seen pictures from the winter, everything had been lit up, happy. I suppose that was gone now, and I hadn't missed much since I was last here.
I passed through the square, and crossed onto an avenue I knew well. I pulled my cloak closer to myself, and I wondered if it was so cold because I was up north or if it was because the place I had once adored was now dead to me.
Audrey stopped at a red brick building she knew all too well, entered the side door cautiously and climbed the staircases to the third floor.
The hallway seemed more dilapidated now, there were burn marks everywhere from the floor to the walls, a few panes were missing from the window, sending a draft in. Some of the doors had been blown off their hinges, or barely hanging on by a single hinge. The insides of the rooms resembled the hallways, and there was blood in splotches on some of the floors. Her eyes welled up with tears.
What had happened here?
It was much to her relief that the door for apartment 1031 was still intact, she kept her hood up, concealing most of her face and hair.
Knock, knock, knock.
There was a small whirring sound and the peephole appeared, a shocking blue eye stared back at her, opened the door quickly, grabbed her by her robes and yanked her into the room.