Telephone Room
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A very small, very hidden space. Not very much of interest
here; just clutter, wiring, knickknacks, and a very unnerving feeling.
Bending lower, you begin to move aside some of the dust and piled miscellany
from the floor; it feels as though someone is breathing down the back
of your neck, or a mosquito had landed there. Something strange about
the floor… something buried... Somewhere in the room, a utility phone
begins to ring. You refuse to pick it up, digging deeper, bits of old
cement crumbling beneath your fingers. Ring, ring... its tone seems more
and more insistent until it rises to a high wail in your ears and you
move to lift the receiver in frustration, when a voice whispers in your
ear, an actual voice, sinister and thick with the dust of ages. “Begone...”
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