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Everything to Save Her
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Back home, everything seems normal. Almost too normal. Mara cooks dinner and hums the same song. But that night Elias wakes to find her standing over the bed, perfectly still, her eyes open and black as oil. 'Thank you for bringing me back,' she says in a voice that isn't quite hers. The thing wearing his wife smiles.
Elias runs to the basement and powers up the machine to undo it all. The black-eyed Mara follows, calm and unhurried. 'You can send me back,' she says, 'but something always comes through with you. Something rode home on your grief.' He hits the switch anyway. The light takes him, and her smile is the last thing he sees before the basement, the town, and nine months of mourning all go white and gone.
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