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The hallway lights streak past as Dustin, Lucas, Max, and Mike charge ahead, their panicked voices echoing. I hang back, my gaze catching a flicker of movement under the restroom door. Pushing it open, I see Dart coiled in the shadows of a stall—but his piercing scream doesn’t just echo off the tiles. It tears a hole in the world. The linoleum floor cracks into dark earth, the ceiling peels away into a sickly gray sky. I’m standing in the middle of that dead field again, the air tasting of ash and decay. The colossal, spider-like shadow of the Mind Flayer rises on the horizon, its limbs reaching. My breath hitches; I can’t move, can’t scream, my whole body trembling violently. Then you burst through the thinning veil between worlds, your figure sharp against the gloom, and you r…