That haunted house everyone talks about!

LOCATOION somewhere in a small village on the country side of Gaia
DATE 15th of August 2021
TIME evening
ATTIRE black shorts and a dark blue t-shirt
TOPIC FOR @Katelyn xx
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So, he had taking her out on a trip. Yes, road-trip outside of Aston, outside of Grounds of Lily where they other wise had their own little bobble. It was good to be out, and they had been on different motels since two days ago when they left. Today, they had made it to this lovely little town, little old school village on the country side. Roman had done a lot of googling, he was big on planning even if he was a spontaneous guy, not that he planned to the last detail. Roman just had eye for making most out of everything. So, on his lovely search on TripAdvisor he had found found this haunted house, and booked a tour - because who didn't love a haunted house?

After an early dinner they drove to the location of the tour. He had of course briefly made a few hints to the spookiness about the house, stories about it being haunted, it was a popular attraction in the city. And there it was a big mansion like house, windows shattered, looking all dark and gloomy. "So, what do you think? Last chance to back out," he looked at Katelyn as he killed the engine, before moving his eyes to the other people walking over to the tour guide.

He looked to her side as she confidently said they were doing this, Roman did a nod as he stepped out of his car and locked it. Then walked towards the smaller group of people, his eyes shortly looking up at the haunted house again. It sent shivers down his spine, as they approached the group and his head turned to Katelyn as she grabbed his hand. "Deal," he replied with a small chuckle. Then looking at the short guy standing on a woodened box checking off people as they lined up. Roman gave him their names and he got them checked off as well. "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the haunted Fyneham manor," he gestured towards the mansion behind him, making Roman look once again to the house. "Here we only have a few rules, okay? First rule don't touch anything. And I mean anything, now, my name is Buck and behind you is Rudy who will make sure you don't get lost on the tour," he informed with a bright smile looking at the group.

"Now, how long has this manor been here you might ask? Well, we could ask Rudy's grandmother, come on," he jumped down from the box and walked towards the manor, where a rocking chair was standing, rocking on the porch with no one in it. But looking closely there was a silhouette of an old woman on the wall behind the rocking chair. "Oh, she says around - oh are you serious? - okay then, around 300 years. Now, let's head inside." Buck opened the creaking door. Pitch black, till Buck took out a torch to light the way. Roman looked around chuckling a bit, not really buying the whole old woman ghost thing, it had to be for the show and all, right?

Stepping closer the walls seemed to narrow, just following Buck as he was leading the way. Roman's hand not stopping holding onto Katelyn's for a second at all, with his sight he could at least manage to see in the darkened room better than others. It was almost like a maze before they made it to the main room. The main room bigger and brightening up the room a little bit better, but still only with a weak yellow light from a chandelier. "See, every town has at least one abandoned house with ghost stories, including this one we are standing in. Several people have died in this house. A boy was murdered right over there on the stairs," Buck pointed to the stairs Katelyn and Roman were standing right next to. "A few people tried to live here since, but they sadly never lasted very long. The last owner placed these mirrors around the main room before he disappeared. He said that if a ghost sees his reflection he would be caught in the mirror forever... we just thought he was a crazy old man," he told Buck then kept the group moving towards the back of the manor in the garden. Roman looking at a mirror for a second, gasping a bit as he saw a face in it even for just a second.

"Arh, yeah, some of the older families had their own mausoleum -- that's a building where they keep the corpses above the ground in vaults... and you know, we aren't supposed to walk among the dead, but I say we enter," he waved them into the hall, as soon as the group entered the door behind them slammed in. Roman took a deeper breath in feeling a small tickle in his hand of something might being wrong, or perhaps he was just scared? Buck seemed unaffected by the events, making Roman take a sharper breath in. "To get out of this nightmare, I'm afraid we have to cross the graveyard. But remember we are not supposed to walk among the dead. So, stay on the path, alright?" - "We can't cross the graveyard Buck, it's cursed. You know that. Remember what happened last time?" Rudy walked up and hissed to Buck. Buck took a sharper breath in. "We have no choice, it's the only way out," he whispered back to Rudy, before both of them looked up at the group with a smile. Then opening the doors to the graveyard. Filled with headstones, some whole others barely holding on anymore. "Okay I'm officially crept out," Roman mumbled to Katelyn giving her hand a lighter squeeze.