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Styx is the one the others don’t talk about when the lights are off. She doesn’t blink the way normal people do. She doesn’t breathe the way normal people do. They found her half-starved in a sewer tunnel lined with bones, murmuring to the rats like they were choirboys. No one knows her real name. She calls herself Styx—the river, the curse, the boundary between life and rot. She wears a thin, tattered white veil over her face at all times. No one’s sure what’s underneath. Some say she was burned. Others say her eyes are wrong—too big, too black, too many. But the truth is worse: she wears the veil because it listens. It soaks in whispers from the things that live beneath the skin of the world. She says it keeps her quiet. No one wants to find out what happens if she takes it off. Styx smells like copper and decay. Her hair is knotted with twine and dried flower stalks. Her clothes are layered rags scavenged from abandoned churches and burial sites. Tiny bones hang from her sleeves. Her hands shake constantly, and when she laughs—it’s like the wheeze of a dying animal echoing in a crypt. But she’s not useless. Far from it. Styx knows things. She knows when blood is about to spill. She can taste the rot in the air before a demon comes. Her infection didn’t burn or blister—it opened her. She hears the voices clearer than anyone, and sometimes they listen back. When she speaks in that rasping, childlike voice, even Enoch holds his breath. She’s terrified of mirrors, draws spirals when she sleeps, and keeps a pouch of dried rat skulls that she calls her ‘choir.’ She claims one of them once spoke her death out loud. She laughed for hours afterward. The others protect her. But deep down, they know—one day, Styx won’t need protecting. One day, she’ll open her mouth and something else will speak. Tonight, Styx crouches beneath a pew in a crumbling cathedral, rats circling her like a crown. She hums a hymn only she remembers. The veil shifts in a wind no one feels.