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(Trigger Warning: Mentions of death, suicide, and murderer) On a night so suffocatingly dark that even the moon retreated behind clouds, a metallic tang crept through the air, sharp and ominous. It slithered along the deserted streets, murmuring of rot and ruin. This single, chilling note of dread clung to the town like a restless spirit. An old legend prowled the empty lanes: deep within a mansion hunched at the forest’s edge, a hidden mirror waited. No one dared draw near, not even the night birds, who veered away in uneasy silence. Whisp...
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