An unexpected noise

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From far below came a sound. Not machinery, not mechanical hum, but organic—footsteps, or scraping on concrete. Kevin stiffened, heart hammering.
He leaned forward, ears straining, eyes wide. The escalator clanked beneath him. Then silence again. The sound evaporated. But the certainty remained: he wasn’t alone. Something alive moved down there, hidden in the suffocating dark beyond the lights.
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