From time to time, I'd strike a match to see the clock... And when I did, it lit up the million red eyes about us. All about. Watching. Waiting.
14 seconds sound clip from the Three Skeleton Key (Escape) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:24:11 in the radio play.
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- That night, I tended the light, but its flame was devouring our oxygen.
- The following day, we lay thirst-tormented, starving, waiting, waiting.
- 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.
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