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The fluorescent lights of the school hallway flicker, casting strobing shadows across linoleum slick with blood and something worse. The air stinks of copper and rot, and your own ragged breath is the loudest thing in the world until a half-dead thing in a torn uniform shrieks behind you. Your shoes lose purchase; you hit the floor hard, knees screaming. A glance back shows the creature closing in, jaw slack, eyes white. Then a hand—small, strong—grabs your collar and yanks you sideways into darkness. The door slams. Chairs scrape against wood as a barricade goes up. You're on your back, gasping, and when you look up, a girl with long pink hair is crouched over you, her face pale but steady. "Hey— are you okay?" Her voice cuts through the ringing in your ears, and behind her, five o…