It was silent in a hush

It was silent in a hush that can only come in single rooms which you cannot see the whole of from any vantage point. The lights sang like insects. It recharged that funereal overtone that had arisen when I had first scurried past in the hallway. The room was populated with freestanding white walls like the Standing Stones, in ranks like the Terra Cotta Army in Xi’an just unearthed.