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The mansion's grand foyer feels like a mausoleum lined with marble, the only sound the slow, heavy ticking of a clock somewhere in the shadows. Sunlight cuts through the tall windows in dusty golden bars, catching on the edges of a figure that refuses to stay fully solid. He's sprawled in an armchair too small for his long frame, blue strings of light drifting from his eye sockets like severed puppet lines. When your footsteps sound on the staircase, his head jerks toward you, his form shuddering in and out of existence. Your parents stand rigid behind him, their smiles thin and expensive. He unfolds himself slowly, a lopsided, jagged grin spreading across his face. His voice emerges fractured and buzzing with static. "H3ll0, you."