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**Trace:** _**Rose?!**_

**Trace:** Huh…? I heard her. Flora, stay here, I’ll—

**Flora:** No way! You’re not leaving me alone in this haunted place!

**Trace:** Stoney? Stay close. Protect Flora, okay?

NOD NOD

**Trace:** Good boy.

**Roselyn:** _Trace… Detritus...._

**Trace:** Rose! What’s going on?! You can’t really be… a-are you… dead?

**Roselyn:** Dead…? Not entirely. But I am… less than I was. And more, I suppose. You’ll see.

**Roselyn:** Not long ago, death was your obsession. Researching ways to extend life, and bring it back. You needed someone to test your work on, and I was all you had left. So when I got old and my time drew near…

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