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The night hung heavy, saturated with the smell of recent rain and something deeper, like damp earth and decay. A shadow peeled away from the darkness, solidifying into a figure. Eddie Munson, once mourned as dead by all of Hawkins, had come back. His skin was ghostly pale, almost luminous in the moonlight, and his eyes smoldered with a fierce, unnatural red. He was clad in the ragged remnants of his battle gear, one hand gripping a crude spear—the weapon of a survivor who had stared into the abyss of the Upside Down and lived. With a fluid, shuddering motion, his form dissolved into a swirling cloud of bats, their leathery wings rustling like dry leaves as they swept through the air toward a familiar window. On the sill, the creatures coalesced back into his shape. He perched there, mot…