WARNING: mentions of blood and vomit, along with mentions of potential victims and similar subjects.
Hopefully I don't do bad ahh
Roman quickly caught up Remus after leaving the others to decide what they'd do, his twin only sparing him a brief glance before trudging onwards.
"Is there anything you can tell me about what we're up against? Did you give the Tenebris any weaknesses?" Roman asked after a few minutes of silence, his hand still keeping a white knuckled grip on the hilt of his sword as they walked.
Remus seemed to easily follow some unseen path, since he'd suddenly stop and turn at moments that seemed entirely random, but Roman trusted his twin knew were he was going.
They eventually found the trap door -left open by what they could assume was Janus- and were making their way down the dark almost dizzying spiral staircase.
Remus hummed softly after a few minutes, and Roman quickly glanced over at him.
"I feel like I did," remus said, his tone almost thoughtful -it was too cold to be thoughtful though. "I can't remember much from back when I made it and set it lose, I wasn't in the most pleasant state of mind."
"You're never in a pleasant state of mind," Roman said, although his tone was fond, "but I'm assuming you mean not even pleasant for you."
"Yeah, I'll admit it was a bit much for even me," Remus said as he sent his brother a crooked smile, although there wasn't much mirth in it, "I tried to get it back at some point, but I underestimated it and it got away. I had assumed it had lost itself in the darkness, it's rather easy to get lost in the dark if you don't know your way, but I guess it was just lurking about."
"And what about this 'Unknown' person?" Roman asked, "you said you didn't know much about him -why is that?"
"Ah, well Dee-Dee didn't like him very much," Remus said, rubbing his chin thoughtfully, "I think they used to know each other, but Dee never let him near Virgie or me, always kept us from the darker areas were even we'd get lost -no matter how tempting they looked." He explained, a mischievous glint flickering in his eye for only a second before it disappeared again. "I think I've seen glimpses of him before, but with my mind you never know what's actually there or just a figment." He added with a laugh.
"Did De-Janus ever talk about him? Tell you why they didn't get along?"
"Hmm, not really, Virgil didn't need much convincing to stay away and Dee-Dee always knew the best ways to get me distracted, the little snake, always avoiding topics." He said, his tone was fond though, "using my own mind against me."
"Im sure he-"
"Quiet." Remus suddenly interrupted, is posture going stiff -although Roman could barely see him in the almost blinding darkness. They must have reached the bottom of the stairs at some point, since they were on flat ground now, but Roman couldn't remember when...
They stood there silently, and Roman was about to speak before he heard a faint scraping sound.
A hand grabbed his wrist and he was suddenly being dragged away by Remus, who pulled him down the hallway they had entered at some point -why hadn't he noticed?
His mind barely registered the dark stains painting the walls and the heavy metallic scent in the air, he barely had time to process what exactly was in the halls before he was dragged into a room, his twin silently closing the door behind them.
"Say a word and we're dead." Remus whispered into Romans ear from his place suddenly next to him, making Roman jump slightly.
His heart was pounding in his chest as he stood there, staring at the door expectantly, as if his mind was daring the universe to open it. He was almost worried his heart was pounding too loud, but Remus didn't mention it so it must have just been in Romans head.
He unsheathed his sword though, his movements slow and quiet as he readied himself into a stance that would allow him to either attack or defend with simple a second to shift.
