"Okay, let me go first," she stated. She had the axe, after all. "Just, try and light the way for me, yeah?" She managed to slip by him, then raised the axe and took the steps one at a time, as careful as she ever got, trying to see what lay ahead, what creaked again right then.

Something suddenly rushed at her and she screamed even as she brought the axe straight into it. Bones scattered, broken and in pieces, and after a moment, the pair of skeleton's hips and legs also fell down the stairs, as if only just realising that their upper body had been destroyed.

"Shit," she let out, voice shaking a little.