No matter how he thought about it, he had to find the source of that aura. Horus couldn't stop his curiosity, even if it ruined the illusion he had been living in for the past week.
When night fell and the peaceful family was fast asleep, Horus snuck back into their home with his body wrapped in qi. He was hidden from their ordinary senses entirely, and even as he stepped over the creaky floorboards and found the divet that indicated the presence of a hidden door, they remained fast asleep.
It was a good thing that he put up a small barrier, because there was no way the smell that burst from beneath the floorboards would have gone unnoticed.
It was putrid and disgusting, like the smell of rotting flesh and burning flesh combined into one. It was released in such quantities that it formed a cloud of darkness within the barrier and almost made Horus vomit.
'I wish I could keep denying it.'
