### **🌑 [Opening Scene: Waking Up to a Nightmare]**v
Elena awoke to a heavy silence, as if the world had suddenly been sapped of air. She didn't hear her brother's laughter that filled the house every morning, nor the rustle of her mother's clothes in the hallway. Even the stray dog that barked at their door every day... disappeared.
She looked out the window.
The city was there, but life wasn't.**
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### **🌊 [First Exploration: A World Without Sounds]**
Her shoes made a terrifying clatter as they clattered across the empty sidewalks of Aldroth:
- **Cafes**... The coffee cups were still on the tables, but the lips that had touched them had evaporated. - **Train station**... where she was watching the sunset with her brother. Now the **big clock** stopped at 3:47** (the moment of disappearance?).
- **School**... She found her **brother's** notebook open to a page written in squiggly script:
*"... Don't open the window tonight... I'm no longer the one knocking... Don't look for my body... It would be disgusting."*
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### **🕸️ [First Signs of the Curse]**
- On the corner of her favorite street, she saw a **headless** doll (her old doll?) covered in a **gooey, bloody, but black** substance.
- Upon touching the mysterious barrier surrounding the city, her **fingers** felt like they melted for a second... then returned to normal.
- At night, I heard **whispers** coming from the abandoned buildings:
*"Elena... you're the **main course**."*
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### **🍷💋 [The Horrific Ending: The Beginning of the Labyrinth]**
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-**Hello... I'm Elena Quince Lewisford.**
I'm an ordinary girl, nothing really special about me...
Except maybe my **sharp hearing** that picks up the whispers of neighbors from behind the walls,
or my **eerie calm** that makes people wonder if I'm hiding secrets in my silence.
Yes, they say I'm **strikingly beautiful** —
long blond hair like the winter sun,
and bottomless blue eyes that remind people of the clear lakes of Aldroth...
But that hasn't stopped me from being **that ghost girl** in the corner of the fancy parties,
watching, listening, and only speaking when asked... which happens rarely.
Even my brother Liam used to laugh at me: "Elena... if you were any less quiet, I'd think you were furniture!"
But everything was different that morning... The morning I woke up to the eerie silence of the palace,
being quiet for the first time... was the hardest thing to bear.
--- Elena awoke to sunlight filtering through her silk curtains, but something was off. She didn't hear her brother's annoying laughter that woke her up every morning, nor her mother's voice calling the maids to prepare breakfast. Even the stray dog that barked at the gates of their palace every morning... had disappeared. "Mama, Papa, Sister, Juliet, Brother, where are you?" she called in a hoarse, tired voice that echoed throughout the empty palace. "She looked in the mirror. Her long blond hair was disheveled, and her blue eyes bore dark circles as if she hadn't slept in years. "Where is everyone?" she whispered, but her voice echoed in the empty room like a dead echo.
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She walked out of her room, her high-heeled shoes echoing eerily in the empty palace. - **Her brother's room**: His bed was made, but his **favorite clock** (her birthday gift) **stopped at 3:47 AM**.
- **Kitchen**: The lavish breakfast table was covered with plates of **cold food**... as if someone had been eating and then **evaporated**.
- **Palace garden**: The red roses were **falling their petals at an unnatural speed**, as if time was speeding up around them.
Then she noticed the **white symbol** carved into her thumbnail. She tried to scratch it, but it wouldn't go away.
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#### **🐱 [Mysterious Cat]**
Suddenly... **soft meow**.
She turned to see a small white **cat** with golden eyes staring at her from under the table.
"Where did you come from?" She tried to shoo it away, but the cat **jumped into her lap** as if it had known her for years.
She had no idea that this cat would be her **only companion** in this empty world.
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#### **👯 [Surprise in the Dark]**
When she returned to her room at night, **she heard breathing** behind the door.
She opened it slowly... to find **her sister, Juliet** standing in the darkness, **her black hair** disheveled and her eyes **red** from crying.
"How...?" Elena shuddered.
"I was in a white place... and then I woke up here!" Juliet collapsed.
Before Elena could process it, **a strange woman** appeared behind her sister.
"I'm hoping... looking for my family... I know it may seem strange, but my situation is the same as yours; my family disappeared and I don't know exactly what happened." She smiled, but her smile didn't reach her eyes.
Elena felt a twinge of doubt.
This woman... **wasn't from their town.** ...Moreover, she looked...unusually beautiful. How did she even know our condition to resemble hers?
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### **🌘 [Epilogue: The Beginning of the Riddle]**
Amal took care of the two girls and prepared something for them to eat. That night, while Juliet was sleeping, **Elena saw something from the window**:
- **A tall shadow** standing at the palace gate… **Raising a hand with unnaturally long fingers**, beckoning to her.
The white cat **let out a terrifying hiss**, as if warning her of something.
Elena quickly closed the curtains.
"This isn't a dream…" she whispered.