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    The day had been a waking nightmare. Your mind was scattered, sluggish—drunk and stupid. You could barely read the pages in front of you, let alone offer comfort to those who sought it. The people who once came to you for guidance now looked at you with something else entirely. Judgment. Fear. Pity.
    Your hands trembled as they rested in your lap, your gaze fixed on the statue before you. The candles around it had burned low, wax dripping down the marble like tears.
    “Please…please forgive me,” you whispered, voice cracking. “Father…Mother…God—please.”
    Your breaths came in shallow gasps. Thoughts refused to form, slipping from your grasp like water through cupped hands.
    Then, the voices returned.
    “Don’t worry…”
    They coiled around you like smoke, thick and suffocating.
    “You’re doing so well—”
    They clashed, layered over one another, overlapping, distorting—until they became unbearable.
    “All you need to do now is….Let. Us. IN.”

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