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A heavy thud echoed from his front door. Not a knock—a weight, as if something large and wet had leaned against the wood. Through the thin walls, he heard the rustle of leaves and the snapping of twigs, though he lived on the fourth floor of a concrete building. "The woods do not want to be found," the first line read

He looked back at the laptop. The EPUB was changing. New words were appearing on the "blank" page in real-time. The font was erratic, varying from elegant script

The door handle turned slowly. Elias backed away, his heart hammering against his ribs. He grabbed his phone to call for help, but the screen was already dead. On the laptop, the EPUB file began to delete itself, byte by byte, until only one sentence remained on the glowing screen: "The woods are inside now."

The rain in Bradford was a relentless gray curtain, the kind that soaked into your bones before you even stepped outside. Elias sat in his cramped apartment, the blue light of his laptop the only thing cutting through the gloom. On the screen, a flickering forum page displayed the words he’d been hunting for weeks:

"Elias is listening," the screen typed. "Elias is waiting. Elias is home."