After minutes of standing, it was clear everyone got the message.
They were all scared.
At least the start was even warm. The test they'd seen said Begin and within seconds they were introduced to horrors they'd never seen. Now the new one above them was referring to them as maggots, and that didn't bode well for anyone considering what had just occurred on the floor below.
The bone staircase had brought them up into something entirely different from the chamber they'd survived. Where the first floor had been cold and still, this one breathed. That was the only word for it.
