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The mansion swallows the late afternoon light, turning it into long amber blades that cut across marble floors and leather-bound walls. A faint scent of lemon polish and fresh flowers hangs in the air, but it can't mask the sterile quiet of a house that has never known your footsteps. You wander through the hallways, your phone pressed to your ear, your friend's voice a thin thread of normalcy against the vast silence. The kitchen gleams like a surgical theater—stainless steel, white quartz, rows of vegetables that look more like art than food. You open the fridge and recoil a little, holding up a jar of something green to the camera. "Looks like I will have to eat out... For the rest of my time here... I mean what is that?" You close the door and turn, and there he is. A man leans agai…