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The words tumbled from my lips with a stutter. “A hundred years’ worth. So, you would think you were a hundred and sixteen at the time. The truth is, Marcus has only been hunting you for eighteen years because that’s all you’ve been alive.” Brodie ran into the room, just as the penny dropped, and I understood what he was telling me. “Why?!”

The landscape was alien and foreboding, a surreal amalgamation of shifting shadows and fragmented structures that seemed perpetually on the verge of collapse. The air was thick with an unsettling stillness, broken only by the occasional whisper of forgotten memories. Each whisper was like a ghostly touch against her skin, a fleeting sensation that left her shivering. The whispers were disjointed, fragments of conversations, cries, and laughter that seemed to echo from the very walls of Nyxterra. They whispered her name in haunting, fragmented tones, urging her deeper into the darkness.

I couldn't see anything clearly, but I could hear Mika's voice, muffled and indistinct, speaking in hushed tones. She emerged from the house a few moments later, leaving the door unlocked. I waited, my heart pounding, until she was gone, before cautiously approaching the old house. I had to know what was going on. Mika's back was turned to me, her voice hushed as she spoke into the phone. This was my chance. I slipped into the old house, moving with a quiet grace honed by years of tiptoeing around my own anxieties. The interior was dark, a cavern of dust and shadows, the air thick with the scent of decay and forgotten memories.

He’s here, and there’s nowhere to hide. The whispers grow louder, filling the room, pressing in on me from all sides. I feel like I’m suffocating, drowning in the darkness that’s closing in around me. The room is spinning, the walls closing in, and I can’t breathe, can’t think. And then, just as suddenly as it started, the whispering stops. The silence is deafening, the sudden absence of sound almost more terrifying than the whispers themselves. I stand there, frozen, my back pressed against the wall, waiting for whatever comes next.

The city glittered below. From her East Quarter apartment, Claire Whitmore could see the skyline stretch across the horizon like a crown. The lights flickered—soft, distant, like stars too far to touch. She stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, a glass of red wine in one hand, her laptop open on the counter behind her. The screen displayed a single line in a document titled: How to Make Him Notice Me Step 3: Let her question herself. She smiled.

The kind that wraps around your chest, squeezes until every breath feels wrong. The air was cold, colder than it should’ve been, and there was this... hum, like the walls themselves were alive, breathing along with me. It was unsettling, but I pushed the feeling aside. Just my nerves. Just the weight of the stories I’d read, the things I’d heard. Then came the whispers. At first, I thought it was the wind, moving through the shattered windows and long, empty halls. But no, they were too deliberate. Too real. They echoed in my ears, soft, sultry, like they were trying to pull me deeper into the darkness.

"The second is The Whispering Void. A psychological world. It attacks your mind directly, bypassing physical defenses entirely. It shows you your fears, your failures, your worst possible futures, and it makes them feel absolutely real. You'll experience every trauma you've ever suppressed, every nightmare you've tried to forget, every anxiety amplified to unbearable levels. Deadies have been known to go completely, irreversibly insane within minutes of entering. You'll need to cross it in four hours while maintaining your sanity and sense of direction in absolute darkness." The second image was somehow worse in its simplicity. Just darkness. Absolute darkness that seemed to move, to breathe

I stepped back as the door turned red. Moving slowly through the hall, step, step, step, step. The ticking started once more. I needed to find my escape. I ran through a door to the right to find myself falling into a field of grass. Whispers of voices being carried with the wind. So many voices all at once, none were discernible. Shadows began appearing along the horizon, and the whispers increased.

The old glass walls catch the afternoon sunlight, making everything inside glow with warm colors. Then Whitney walks in. She looks tired. I notice that there are dark circles beneath her eyes that were not there before. She stops a few feet away from me, and neither of us says a word to each other at first. The silence feels strange; not angry, just uncertain. Finally, I break it. “Are we going to keep staring into space?” I ask. She folds her arms. "I looked through the box." I nod slowly. "I figured you might." "I spent almost a whole day on it."

Effective unsupervised window at the northern dock wall: fifteen to twenty minutes, not eight. The wall at the north edge of the dock. Two feet lower than the primary walls. The water below. The supply ship at anchor forty meters out with a crew that's not this island's jurisdiction. Fifteen to twenty minutes. I have fourteen weeks of timing data and a plan that was waiting for four minutes, and the four minutes were in the noise the whole time. I stand at the eastern wall with this information, letting it settle into the plan with the satisfaction of a variable finally clicking into its correct position. The satisfaction is real, and I let it be real for exactly as long as it takes to confi