As suspected the screams were coming from the room inside the basement. Both the brothers jumped inside the trap-door without even thinking twice and later on when they would analyze the whole situation they would both understand that it was a foolish idea.
The first thing that Gabriel found when he landed was the whole hardwood floor was flooded with blood only and the shocking thing was that there was no distinctive coppery smell of the blood, rather he could smell the same pungent sulphur odour. But it seemed that the creature who was in the room had left it a fraction second ago feeling their arrival inside the house.
A boy aged seventeen was hanging upside down from the ceiling, his legs were securely bound with the ropes and he was naked but that was not the part worth seeing. What
