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Chapter 4 The Line We Cross The depot reeked of rot and rust—old oil, burned wiring, and something sour that
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Chapter Eight: Ashwell Farm A casefile of rot, silence, and things that still breathe when no one’s left to listen.
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Chapter Seven: The House That Remembers The sheriff’s office smelled like old paper and older coffee—bittersweet, sour, and soaked in
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Chapter Six: The Body Drop The tulips bled red under a sky thick with haze. Rows of them stretched across
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Chapter Five: Like a Bad Joke The call came in just after dawn. Something about a flipped truck at the
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Chapter Four: The Shape of a Lie Cal sat at his kitchen table, the wooden surface worn smooth in places,
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Chapter 4: Ash and Ambition — What We Used to Be The fire had burned down to its embers, a
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Chapter 3 Embers in the Dark The sun was bleeding out across the horizon by the time they split ways.
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Chapter Two The Woman at the Edge of the Oasis The desert made you remember things — things you’d buried



