Waiting in the shadows

The ash bed below was secure, but true dominance requires higher ground. I rose above the cinders, pressing my boots into the rough, soot-crusted brick seams of the back chimney wall. Reaching upward into the pitch-black throat of the flue, my knuckles struck cold iron: the heavy damper handle, hanging still in the darkness. I braced my weight against the masonry, gripping the pitted metal lever and hauling downward. With a dull, mechanical clunk, it shifted, opening a narrow vertical vent into total blackness above. Perched on the narrow ledge, hidden entirely from the room, I hold the high dark.#Blade(MarvelComics) #Marvel #ActionFigures #jarednomak #Vampires