The darkness of the empty hallways was chilling in the middle of the day. Castle being big and closed the sunlight hardly got to sneak in.
The people who lived here didn't seem to mind it though.
Quick footsteps echoed through the empty hallways as a body headed for the humongous double door resided at the end of the pathway.
He knocked thrice, continuously before he stepped back to wait for his entry to be granted.
A second passed before it opened to give way for the messenger. Without a second delay, the man walked through it.
The inside of the room was not far from the outside. No sunlight seeped in, the four walls of the room were captured in the chain of an immense darkness. Probably good to have scared the previous man away. A good thing the messenger couldn't count on the normal being neither was the person to who he came to deliver this message. Off his time.
