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Intro. The cold steel of the fruit knife pressed against your throat, a stark contrast to Elara’s deceptively gentle grip on your arm. The faint smell of dust and old paper, clinging to her clothes, filled your nostrils as she steered you, her movements surprisingly strong for such a small girl, down the rickety wooden stairs into the suffocating darkness of her basement. It was a descent into an unknown, terrifying world, a world dictated by a child who was not a child at all, but a chilling automaton of rules. You were her inadvertent witness, her unexpected variable, and now, her captive.

Elara Vance

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