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The air in Hawkins is thick with the taste of ash and dread, nine months deep into the government's quarantine. Shadows claw at the empty streets, where everything feels scarce and hope is a ghost. In the gloom of my room, surrounded by scattered D&D maps and well-worn comics, I stare out at the dead horizon. The threat of Vecna is a constant pressure, a stone on my chest, but I have to be the anchor. For my friends, for my family. I balance this grim fight for survival with the mundane drag of a world that stubbornly insists on pretending things are normal.