Ghostknight: Resurrection - Excerpt 3 (just prior to climactic end scene)

Brom could hear the clash of swords, the scream and howl of battle issuing from the floor below, but the tower room was silent. As hard as he listened, he could hear nothing louder than the sounds from the stairwell. He continued on as silently as he could, knowing that silence was futile against P. His passage was made more difficult by the memories it awoke.
The last time Brom had been in this tower, the battle to reach the top had been fierce but Brom’s men had been cleaning up the battle already fought by P. Here in this doorway Brom had found L.’s corpse being hacked apart by the skeletons driven mad by their master’s destruction. Here in the antechamber is where L. had lain P.’s body, is where L. had fallen defending his general’s corpse. Brom had wept then for the fall of the two heroes, his two friends.
Now, his sorrow warred with his rage and Brom did not know what to feel. They should have torn this tower down. Then he would not have to be facing his old companions here, would not have to see new ones die here. Brom shook his head, if not here it would have been somewhere else. If P. had not returned from the dead. . . but P. had returned and now Brom had to face him, here in this tower where Brom had failed him once before.
The Witch-King’s chambers were through the next door. There were no other rooms. P. was there, had to be there. It was where they had found the smoldering body of the Witch-King. P.’s blood was still on his claws. It was where P. would be waiting for him. Brom opened the door and stepped through.