Where the Curse Never Was

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…A profound silence fell over us, broken only by the distant chirping of crickets and the rustling of leaves. The night was no longer filled with an unseen terror, but with the dawning of a stark, undeniable truth. The shadows that had loomed over Iluwa for so long were finally beginning to dissipate, not by the rising of the moon, but by the courage of those who dared to question. The Night of the Curse had indeed begun, but it was not a night of disappearances; it was a night of unveiling. And as the first hints of dawn began to paint the eastern sky, I knew that Iluwa would never be the same again.