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'The damp, suffocating room appeared once more before the little girl.
She stood paralyzed, looking up in pure horror at the two broken figures that hung limply from the wooden rafters of the ceiling, thick ropes wrapped cruelly around their broken necks.
But this time, the merciful fog that obscured the dream was gone. This time, she saw their faces.
One was a massive man with a thick, fiercely red beard, his features frozen in a final mask of agony. Beside him swung a woman with long, braided brown hair, her delicate skin turned a sickening, pale gray. Their empty, clouded eyes stared straight down at the little girl.
Then, a low, venomous voice crawled out from the darkness directly behind her, the words dripping into her ear like burning wax.
"This is what you deserve."
