Iono’s Day in the Abandoned Prison
The stone archway loomed ahead, a black mouth swallowing the gray afternoon light. I adjusted the small camera mounted on my shoulder, the red recording light a tiny and steady pulse in the corner of my vision. “Okay, chat. Signal is going to get weird in here, so if I cut out, just assume I have been eaten by a medieval ghost. Which would be awesome for views, by the way.” My voice echoed, a hollow and bouncing thing that immediately felt too loud for the profound silence. I stepped inside, and the heavy atmosphere of the place settled over me like a physical weight. The air changed the moment I crossed the threshold. It was cold, a damp and deep cold that seeped through the thin soles of my shoes and climbed my legs with insistent and creeping fingers. It smelled of wet rock, of centuries of compacted dust, and something else underneath. That something else was metallic and faintly rotten, like old iron and forgotten decay. “Whoa,” I breathed, and the word came out a genuine whisper before I caught myself and slipped back into the persona. “Check the ambiance. Ten out of ten. Spook factor is maximum.”
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