Fool Me Once
Ivy spilled over the stones like vines, windows shuttered with heavy iron, the kind that told you this place was once meant to keep something in or keep someone out.
We stepped off the boat and approached the old brass door. The key slid into the lock as if it had always belonged there.
Inside, the air shifted - thick, dusty, dry like parchment. The foyer opened into a long hall lined with faded portraits, faces with no names. And at the very end, a crimson door.
No signs. No labels. Just that eye symbol burned into the center like a brand.
The Red Room.
I paused before the handle.
Jeffery looked at me. “We don’t have to do this.”
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