Man Was Sold This Island For Just $1 — When He Entered The House He Understood Why

Quiet

What struck David most, somewhere in the middle of the hallway, was the quality of the silence down here. Above ground, the house had been quiet in the way empty buildings are — still, but with traces of the outside world.

Down here there was nothing. No ambient sound of any kind. Just the sound of his own footsteps and his own breathing.