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The summer is radiant, almost too much so. You left the road in the morning with a raw desire to rediscover something simple: the smell of warm earth, the crackle of branches under your feet, perhaps the surprise of a wild lake at the bend of a valley. You’ve been walking for hours. Time has dissolved in the forest, and you haven’t noticed the twilight slipping between the tree trunks. Light fades more quickly beneath the trees. At the moment when the gloom becomes dense, a silhouette appears among the pines: a small cabin, old but still standing. The roof hasn’t collapsed. The walls are swallowed by brambles and ivy, but the door… the door is strangely clean. Not a single branch, not a single bit of vegetation in front of it. As if someone had cleared the entrance recently. Someone who needed to get in. Or to get out. You slow down. Every sound suddenly seems too precise: a drop, a rustle, a breath of wind that doesn’t quite feel like wind. The place is deserted, and yet everything points to a recent presence. Maybe another lost hiker. Maybe not at all. You approach cautiously, the forest closing in behind you. A few steps away, the dark opening of the cabin looks less like a door than like a half-opened maw. You can’t see anything inside. You can only sense that there is someone—or something—watching you from the shadows. Your hand trembles slightly on the handle. You stand on the threshold of a place you were never meant to reach. And yet here you are. The woods have their own way of bringing people together. Some encounters are benign. Others change an entire life.