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Everything to Save Her
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Elias doesn't run. He grabs the lamp and asks the thing flatly what it wants. The black-eyed Mara tilts her head. 'To stay. You opened the door. I only walked through it.' Then her face softens, just for a second, and the real Mara surfaces underneath, terrified. 'Elias, it's still in here with me,' she gasps, before the black floods back.
Elias backs toward the stairs to run for help, and that's the mistake. The thing wearing Mara stops pretending. It moves wrong, too fast, smile too wide, and the last warmth in her face is gone. 'You should have left me dead,' it says with her mouth. The basement light flickers out, and Elias is alone in the dark with it.
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