Run: 2026-09-23-01M36P0BQV3X5NN2329PEBKABP

At midnight, Mara Bell found the library door ajar, though she distinctly remembered locking it before supper. Inside, the grandfather clock had stopped at eleven seventeen, its pendulum hanging motionless above the carpet. A single candle burned beside the desk, illuminating one fresh footprint in the dust. The footprint pointed toward the empty chair where her uncle had promised to meet her. Behind Mara, the front door clicked shut, and someone whispered her name from the darkened hall.