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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rgoodbb" data-source="post: 7467115" data-attributes="member: 6801229">Edgwin turned the doorknob ...It didn’t move, but the sound of a deep resonating boom echoed from far beyond the secret threshold the instant he touched it. Edgwin jumped back with a start as the family of bats exploded in confused chaos and desperately swept out of their night portal. He lay askew on the unwashed floor pent up and panting and drenched with sweat. Raising himself upon his elbows, his eyes wide like the panic of a desperate steed ready to bolt at the next sign of trouble.There was no more noise. The vacuum itself loud in his heart-pumping ears. All of the bats had rapidly departed. All, that was, bar one. He could hear it in the black, fluttering and flittering, as if unsure where to go. He heard it above and to the right, and then it stopped. Without warning, the stub of the dead candle reignited flaring up and cast horrendous gothic shadows upon the chamber walls…</blockquote>