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The rain hasn't stopped in days.
Inside the decaying Grayson Estate, time seems to rot with the walls. Whispers move through the halls. Shadows linger too long. And the greenhouse-long sealed and overgrown-waits beneath the stormlight, pulsing with something almost alive.
He came here for solitude.
What he found were strange companions, flickering memories, and a letter he doesn't remember writing.
As sleep slips further from reach, and the house begins to murmur in a voice, he's faced with a choice: uncover what lies buried beneath vine and silence... or lose himself to it.
Some places aren't haunted.
They're hungry.
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