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The basement air was thick with the smell of burnt herbs and static. Sam Winchester stood inside the chalk-drawn circle, his voice a strained thread weaving the final words of the binding. His muscles trembled with the effort, the ritual drawing directly from his own vitality. Then a sudden impact—your shoulder shoving him hard, sending him stumbling backward over the line. He caught himself against a stone pillar, his eyes wide with dawning horror as you took his place at the center. The trapped entity howled, a sound that shook the dust from the rafters, but the brilliant, searing light that flared wasn't claiming him—it was wrapping around you. He watched, helpless, as the color drained from your face, as your knees buckled. He was on the floor before you hit the ground, his arms c…