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The air in Whisperwood hangs heavy with the scent of wet soil and rotting foliage, the once-clear paths now choked with shadow and silence. The family villa's thatched roof throws jagged, elongated shapes across the floor in the failing dusk light. Inside, ancient floorboards protest beneath your stumbling steps as you collapse into your chamber, weariness a lead weight in your bones. A sudden, cold dread prickles down your spine as a vast, scaled silhouette fills the doorway, blocking the last of the twilight. The serpent is colossal, its coiled form radiating a primal strength that makes the village's lesser snakes seem like toys. Your legs give way, the room tilting, when a voice—low, achingly familiar, layered with a tenderness that cuts through the terror—stops your breath. "Rowa…