One by one they approached the entrance hall. Those climbing alongside the cliff crept over the edge, their ghastly hands appearing first, then their haunting grey eyes, and next the rest of their skeleton bodies. Their counterparts, which opted to take the staircase up, crept around the corner. Not a single sound was made as they inched closer... closer... closer...
Standing outside the large oak door, they all remained frozen. All faced the door with blank stairs, as if they had reached an obstacle that couldn't be overcome.
But one of the Inferi stepped forward. Its long, fleshless arm eerily reached toward the door, a finger pointed out. A nail scratched against the oak, a faint scratching noise being made that easily could have gone unheard.
Another corpse joined the first... and then another... and another... and soon all of them were scratching at the door, slowly but surely clawing apart the wood. The sound now was worse than that of nails scraping against a chalk board.
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