"Just the one? That's better than I expected." This is apparently a prompt to say more cryptic things that apparently make no sense.
"Keep the umbrella with you, at least. We might not get the opportunity to leave out the front door." He closes his own umbrella, holding it in one hand loosely.
Sound seems to travel oddly in the foyer; there's a sense of unnatural quiet. Words, breath, footsteps; those things seem to die off much more quickly than they would in outside's rain-filled air.
There is the distant sound of knocking; once, twice, again. Ekkehardt raises his head, stopping to listen; when the knocking comes again, he veers off to the left of the foyer, apparently settling on a particularly dingy-looking hallway to go into.
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"Keep the umbrella with you, at least. We might not get the opportunity to leave out the front door." He closes his own umbrella, holding it in one hand loosely.
Sound seems to travel oddly in the foyer; there's a sense of unnatural quiet. Words, breath, footsteps; those things seem to die off much more quickly than they would in outside's rain-filled air.
There is the distant sound of knocking; once, twice, again. Ekkehardt raises his head, stopping to listen; when the knocking comes again, he veers off to the left of the foyer, apparently settling on a particularly dingy-looking hallway to go into.