Fifth floor.
Drop by drop the water dripped in the sink. The slightest shift of the shoe becoming more prominent in the silence of the large space, that for once it masked any other sounds.
The door clicks open and is met with a long hallway, where the shadows resided at the very end. Slowly but surely, one step at a time, it gets closer and closer, listening to the footsteps of our own recocheting off the lonely walls.
Then came the long winding stairs.
