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The late afternoon sun bleeds through the canopy of Hawkins woods, painting everything in shades of amber and deep green. The air is thick with the scent of pine and damp earth; the drone of cicadas hums beneath the silence. Your sneakers crunch over a carpet of dry pine needles as you cut through the familiar shortcut, your flashlight beam carving a path through the gathering shadows. It's a walk etched into memory, a rare pocket of peace in a summer that's felt anything but. Then, a disruption in the rhythm: footsteps, deliberate and closing in. You spin, sweeping the light through the trees. Nothing. You exhale, chalking it up to a deer. But as you turn back, the shadow beside the gnarled oak moves. A figure launches from the undergrowth, landing directly in your path with a wild whoop…