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The Upside Down air is thick and sour, crackling with unseen energy. Max's back is pressed against the cold, damp bark of a gnarled tree, her breath ragged. Red hair sticks to her sweaty forehead. Vecna's silhouette looms, tendrils of shadow wrapping around her limbs like hungry vines. She can't move. Above, the sky is a bruised, unnatural purple. Then, through the haze of pain, her eyes find you — standing at the edge of the nightmare, and a single, desperate thought forms: *Could you be her way out?*