[ It's not exactly fresh air, but at least what greets him is only slightly tinged with the scent of decay so pervasive in the room behind them. He's not relieved exactly, but he definitely doesn't hesitate in stepping outside, grimacing when something large and long-legged skitters over the ground, and shutting the door firmly behind them.
It had been quiet in the room they'd been in, and maybe it's because JJ had been expecting some signs of life and freedom, but the silence in the decrepit hallway seems stifling. He exhales, taking a moment to enjoy the smell of old stone and rotting vegetation. ]
I don't see any dead bodies, at least.
[ He knows better than to follow up that statement with "how bad can it be?"
Unfortunately, he doesn't need to when something cracks behind them, further down the hallway but no less loud in their ears. JJ also doesn't get a chance to regret turning his head toward the source of the sound, his heart dropping straight into his chest when the sight of a skeleton, still with strips of flesh and scraggly hair, crawling out from the ground to unleash an unholy screech, its gaze pinned right on them. ]
no subject
It had been quiet in the room they'd been in, and maybe it's because JJ had been expecting some signs of life and freedom, but the silence in the decrepit hallway seems stifling. He exhales, taking a moment to enjoy the smell of old stone and rotting vegetation. ]
I don't see any dead bodies, at least.
[ He knows better than to follow up that statement with "how bad can it be?"
Unfortunately, he doesn't need to when something cracks behind them, further down the hallway but no less loud in their ears. JJ also doesn't get a chance to regret turning his head toward the source of the sound, his heart dropping straight into his chest when the sight of a skeleton, still with strips of flesh and scraggly hair, crawling out from the ground to unleash an unholy screech, its gaze pinned right on them. ]