Am I quiet enough?

Did I close the door quickly enough?

Was the light turned off soon enough?

Did the last person take too long to stop moving?

We cannot risk detection…

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Where is it?

Where is it?

Has it entered yet?

Or does it crawl across the first floor now?

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I wish you would stop breathing so hard.

Stop it.

Stop it now.

It could hear you!

It can hear anything- everything.

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A scratch.

I hear a scratch from down the hall.

It’s coming up the stairs.

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You understand?!

It heard you!

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Wait….what’s that?

I hear a loud noise…

It breaks through the door next to us.

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Clicking as its claws stalk across the hard floor.

The clicking stops.

It found them.

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A stifled scream is all we hear from that room.

The efficient killer is finished with that person.

But wait.

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Did the other escape?

Could she have eluded it?

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There’s a creak from the hall floor.

A click as it spots her escape.

Another as it sweeps to her and finishes her off.

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Damn her.

Had she stayed hidden,

Had she kept silent,

It would have over-looked her.

Had she not un-successfully escaped,

It wouldn’t be so keen about double-checking.

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And damn you.

If you hadn’t been breathing so hard, it wouldn’t have stopped in front of our door.

If you hadn’t made that last little shift, he wouldn’t be stalking over to you right now.

If you-

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No clicking.

No fore-warning.

I heard nothing but the sound of your blood splatter.

Maybe now he’ll leave.

Now that you’re gone, he’ll forget to look for me.

After all, I’ve been quiet this whole time.

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I hear a soft step.

Is it farther?

Is it closer?

I can’t tell…

I don’t know…

I hear it again.

It must be moving away, it must.

I haven’t made a peep,

Haven’t moved from under my blanket.

He can’t have detected me…

He c-