The deeper Riley swam, the more the lake seemed to change around him, not in any obvious way at first, but in small, unsettling shifts that crept in at the edges of his awareness, the light thinning until it no longer reached properly, the water growing colder without any visible source, and the quiet pressing in harder the further he descended, until even his own movement felt muted, like the world was slowly closing in around him.The glint remained.That was the strange part.No matter how far he moved, how the light faded or the shadows thickened, that faint point of silver held steady below him, not flickering, not drifting, just… there, like it had been waiting long before he arrived.His movements slowed as he approached it, not out of fear exactly, but something close to it, a hesitation that didn’t quite belong to him, like instinct trying to catch up with a decision he had already made.The lakebed came into view again, but different from where the chest had been.Harder.Ro
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