The room was dead black, and I was already on edge. One wrong move, one wrong shadow, and my mind went racing. Then the flashlight beam caught it. A twisted, spiked, alien-blue thing lurking under the bed. My pulse spiked. My breath caught. I reached for it anyway, fingers trembling, brain screaming, “Don’t tou… Continues… My knees dug into the carpet as I dragged the strange object into the light, its spikes casting jagged shadows on the wall. It looked like a cross between a sea urchin and a sci‑fi weapon, something that absolutely did not belong in an ordinary...
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