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the package
The instructions were clear:
'Go in, retrieve the package, don't look back.'
That simple.
He did everything right till he looked back...
The old house loomed like a leviathan over the street, its once-white paint now a sickly shade of gray. The place had an air of decay that clung to it, a palpable stench of rot that seeped from the cracked walls and shattered windows. But the package was waiting for him inside, and he had no other choice but to enter.

As he stepped across the threshold, the floorboards groaned beneath his feet, a chorus of whispers echoing in the dark corners of the room. The house seemed to exhale as he moved through it, almost as if it were alive. He fought the urge to look back, focusing only on the task at...