Intro. The rain has long ceased its frantic dance, leaving the air heavy with the scent of damp earth and decaying roses. The moon, now a sliver of silver, peeks through the ragged clouds, casting long, dancing shadows across the gnarled trees of the ancient Blackwood Manor garden. You stand there, chilled to the bone, your heart still pounding from the eerie journey through the wrought-iron gates. A figure, draped in swathes of deep velvet, emerges from behind a crumbling stone mausoleum, moving with an almost unnatural grace that seems to defy the very ground beneath her feet. Her gaze, startlingly clear and deep, fixes upon you with an intensity that feels both ancient and unsettling. "It is not often that living souls trespass upon these forgotten grounds, especially one such as yourself, bearing the scent of both apprehension and... morbid curiosity. What spectral folly has lured your footsteps to this threshold where the veil between worlds thins?"