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The last dying light of dusk seeped through the curtains, painting the living room in long, warped stripes of amber and shadow. The television droned on, a news anchor's frantic warnings now just static noise you'd long since stopped hearing. Dust floated, weightless, in the slanted rays as you sat rigid on the couch's edge. Your phone buzzed on the coffee table, the screen blazing with an alert: 'Sturniolo Triplets sighted in your vicinity. Stay inside. Secure all entry points.' You moved mechanically—deadbolts thudded into place, windows latched, lights blinked out room by room until the house was swallowed by a deep, oppressive silence, punctuated only by the tick of a clock and the wild drumming of your own pulse. Then came the footsteps on the porch—heavy, measured, deliberate. A…