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Nine Tenants, Eight Keys
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Edda says the name out loud to the survivors: 'Dahlia.' Every head snaps up. The crying woman gasps. An old man mutters, 'You shouldn't have found that.' For the first time, the eight of them look less like victims and more like a group with a shared secret.
The old man finally breaks. 'Dahlia died in this house eleven years ago. Fell down the stairs in the dark. We were scared they'd blame us, throw us all out. So we buried her in the cellar and just... kept paying her rent.' Edda has her answer.
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