HIDDEN HOWL
The silence was profound, save for the sound of my breath, my steps too loud against the quiet.
Then, at the end of the passage, I saw it: a door. It stood apart from the others, larger, more intricately carved with designs I couldn’t quite make out in the low light. I approached cautiously, my fingers brushing against the cool surface of the wood. The carvings seemed to shimmer in the flickering candlelight, their patterns twisting in strange, mesmerizing shapes. I couldn’t tell if the wood itself was alive or if the door simply held something otherworldly within it.
Without thinking, I pressed the door open. The hinges creaked, the sound breaking the stillness like the first note of a forg
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