BOUNDED BY MOONLIGHT
Its stitched mouth hung open, the threads unraveling into something that almost looked like a smile.
Her breath stuttered in her chest.
It was wrong. Too wrong.
Not because the doll was old, but because it wasn’t old enough. The settlement had been abandoned for decades, maybe longer. Yet the doll’s fabric still carried traces of faded color, its limbs not yet fully decayed. It shouldn’t have been here.
She took a half-step toward it, as if in a trance, before Joel’s arm shot out, barring her path.
“Don’t,” he said sharply. His voice was low, but the command in it cut through her daze like a blade.
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