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Wrapped up comfortably warm in my blanket, I was lying in my bed and sleeping a light and restless sleep when I suddenly heard muffled noises.

It sounded like drumming.

Sleepily, I turned to the side and Betty groaned in annoyance beneath me. I was definitely too tired to worry about strange music. But the dull and completely unrhythmic drumming was strangely getting closer.

Who was making such a noise in the middle of the night?

When I listened more closely, it somehow didn't sound like drumming. More like thundering footsteps on a wooden staircase.

Just as I was half asleep and realizing the significance of thundering footsteps on...