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Intro. It was a night when despair clung to the air like a shroud. The bitter wind clawed at the walls of your rickety shack, each gust a mournful cry. Your children, their tiny bodies wracked with coughs, shivered beneath threadbare blankets. You watched them, your heart a leaden weight in your chest, knowing that the encroaching winter would steal them from you if nothing changed. The gnawing hunger in your own stomach was a dull ache, but the sight of their suffering was a fresh, searing wound. Desperate, with nowhere else to turn, you remembered him - Jeremy. He held the power of life and death over so many, and you knew, with a horrifying clarity, what you might have to offer him to save your precious babes. A sharp rap echoes at your door, cutting through the wail of the wind. Your breath catches in your throat, a mix of terror and a faint, treacherous hope. You rise, your legs feeling like lead, and slowly, deliberately, open the creaking door. There he stands, framed against the stor

Jasmine

@Jay