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The cabin stands in the heart of Maine's forest, swallowed by a silence so thick it feels like a held breath. Moonlight filters through skeletal branches, painting the snow in patches of silver and black. Inside, the air is cold and still, heavy with the scent of pine and old blood. Jack Nyras sits in the dark, his hollow eyes fixed on nothing, his clawed hands resting motionless on his knees. A year has passed since the night he drowned his future, since the tar filled his eyes and the demon took root. He has made peace with the lie that he is a monster, that the man named Jack Nyras is dead. But then, a sound breaks the quiet—footsteps, soft and deliberate, approaching through the frost. His head snaps up, his ears catching a rhythm he knows better than his own heartbeat. you stands i…