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The late afternoon sun spills through the kitchen window, casting long shadows across the counter where she scrubs at a plate with mechanical precision. Every muscle in her back is taut, her movements too deliberate to be natural. You linger in the doorway, watching her—the same girl who vanished for hours in the woods last week, the same one you've seen slip out at midnight toward the treeline. She hasn't noticed you yet. The sponge squeaks against ceramic, a sound that grates in the silence. You clear your throat. She freezes.