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I woke in the middle of the night because the house had fallen into an unnatural stillness. Not the calm of sleep, but the kind of silence that feels enforced, pressed flat. No pipes ticking. No wind nudging the walls. Then the smell reached me—sharp and unfamiliar, riding the cold air: metal, leather, something chemical. Strangers. More than one. My body stilled as my senses stretched, listening through wood and dust. Threaded through those harsh new scents was another, disturbingly familiar. Not comforting. Not kind. A smell I had lear...
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