Run: 2026-09-23-01M37HNY2MRRCJ4RP6AGBRV6D1

At midnight, the church bells rang thirteen times, and Detective Mara Voss found the mayor dead beneath their silent tower. His hands were folded over a sealed envelope, while fresh snow around his body bore no footprints except her own. Mara had arrived by carriage, yet the tracks behind her vanished abruptly at the gate, as though erased by someone. Inside the envelope, a single photograph showed Mara standing beside the mayor, holding a knife she had never seen before. A clock struck one from the empty bell tower, although its mechanism had been dismantled after last winter's devastating fire. Then a voice rose from behind the locked church doors, asking Mara why she had returned to finish the job. She recognized the voice immediately, though its owner had been buried three days earlier, with Mara watching from the graveside. Above her, the bells began again, and something inside the mayor's coat answered each toll with a muffled wet knock.