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The storm broke at midnight, and the lighthouse keeper found a body washed up on the jagged rocks below. The victim’s wedding ring glinted under the moonlight, though no one claimed to know their name or their history. A note, half-burned and scribbled with frantic words, lay clutched in the hand that had once gripped a cold glass of brandy. Neighbors swore they heard a struggle at precisely 2:17 a.m., but the storm’s howl erased every trace of footsteps in the sand. The lighthouse, long abandoned for modern technology, had become a haven for secrets buried beneath rusted lanterns. A local detective arrived, her coat soaked through, eyes scanning the scene with the calm of someone who’d seen too many endings. Her partner, a younger officer with an ink-stained notebook, pointed to the victim’s fingers: “No soil under the nails,” he muttered. Nearby, a bottle of expensive wine rolled in the tide, cork missing, though no glasses bore its deep red stain. A child’s toy lay ten feet away, half-buried in the sand, its paint chipped but grinning—unnervingly untouched by the surf. The tide rolled in, whispering, while the town slept and the stars above seemed unbothered by the weight of the body on the shore.