Jay strode down the hall with Mitchel dawdling behind, their footsteps resounding on the waxed floor breaking the eerie silence of the lifeless galleries.
Jay was rambling on about something that Mitch was half listening to...as he usually did and bumped into his brother's back.
"What's the deal now?" Mitch cried, notably flustered.
"I did say 'whoah hold on!'" his bro retorted, gesticulating at a passageway that was cordoned off.
Mitch sighed, walking up to the red cordon and noticed the sign hanging from it.
"Halloween Exhibit under construction...do...not...enter" he called out the last three words in a deliberately slow and patronising fashion.
Jay's eye lit up. He had always loved the spooky holiday, dressing up in his favourite monster of that year without fail. "DUUUUDE!" He pushed past a rather indignant Mitch and disappeared into the exhibit area.
Mitch could only roll his eyes and hastily follow his brother just in case he did something stupid.
When he finally caught up with Jay, they found themselves in a dimly lit chamber, what little light was present slowly shifted between red and green which Mitch thought to be quite cheesy.
A thick layer of mist closely hugged the ground obscuring what the boys could only imagine to be grave stones and tall scrubs though there were definite silhouettes of pumpkins as orange glows highlighted their mocking grins. The mists weaved around the heavy roots of a grand but foreboding tree, nearby stone steps lead to a gated crypt where an incongruous light emanated.
Jay scanned the room with a disappointed frown, there was something missing in this waxwork exhibit.
Mitch could tell what was bothering his bro.
"It did say still under construction" he tried to assure him before heading back to the entrance.
Jay let out a huff of defeat and kicked the mist, revealing one empty display plinth. "Damn! I was so hyped to see some cool monsters!" then turned to leave. Only to have a chill run down his spine as a faint whisper caught his ears.
"sssssssstaaaaaaaaayyyyy!"
Jay spun round to try and place the voice but noone was there.
Surmising that it was a hidden speaker he went to leave again and noticed that Mitch was no longer around and the mist that was originally around knee height was now up to his waist.
Jay's childish grin reemerged as something interesting seemed to be happening in this exhibit...