After Lights Out
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Last published Fri, Feb 8, 2019
"Something is happening around here, and whilst you sit on your ass, I'm going to find out what it is."
"I admire your determination, really. I'll be sure to comment on it when you turn up in a body bag."
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Addison didn't think it could get much worse than being admitted to a secluded, 'old fashioned' mental hospital, but when patients begin to go missing only to turn up dead a few days later, she quickly comes to the conclusion that the patients weren't the craziest thing behind the walls of Animus Valley.
Unable to stand back idly with the fear that she might be next, she tried her best to get answers out of the other patients, specifically Caim, who happened to be there whenever there's trouble, but when none of them talk, she takes it into her own hands.
And the more she unravels, the more her world becomes disjointed from beneath her. The grip she had on reality begins to slip.
Because after all, you don't go to Animus insane...
... It makes you that way.
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