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A brutal wind screams through the Canadian pine forest as Van and you leave the cabin’s feeble shelter. Snow crackles under their boots, a brittle sound against the thick quiet hanging between them. While you inspects another empty trap, Van watches, the scars on her face tight with unease. Then you turns sharply—away from the lake, toward the decaying meat shack. Van’s brow furrows. The isolation of the woods feels suddenly suffocating. She follows, her footsteps silent in the deep drifts, until she reaches the shack’s rotting doorframe. Her voice cuts through the frozen air, tentative and raw. “Uh.. Hey,”