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... > I sat at my desk, a single candle flickering beside me, casting shadows across the ink-stained letters I had yet to send. The words blurred together, my mind too restless to focus.
Something was wrong.
I had felt it all evening—the sensation of being watched, the whisper of something just beyond my reach. A tension that had settled in my bones and refused to leave.
And then I heard it.
A creak outside my window.
Slow. Deliberate.
I did not hesita ...
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