And then the rats... quite suddenly... were silent.
8 seconds sound clip from the Three Skeleton Key (Escape) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:24:33 in the radio play.
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- Quite suddenly, about midnight, the light went out.
- Nothing I could do. The wicks were stored three levels below. Nothing I could do. Nothing.
- Below, it had grown quiet. They'd cleaned us out and now they too were waiting. All waiting.
- And then the rats... quite suddenly... were silent.
- And then I saw the sky and the stars. The rats were gone.
- The light was out. They didn't know.
- I wanted to open the windows to call out to them, to warn them somehow, but... I was afraid.
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