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lena adjusted her name badge and clocked
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into her usual night shift at the
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24-hour supermarket The aisles stood
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silent and sterile under humming
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fluorescent lights It was always the
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same Stock shelves sweep floors scan the
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occasional drunk snacks She sighed
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pulled her hoodie tighter and headed
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toward the frozen section to check
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inventory While noting freeze attempts
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Lena paused One door had thick
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condensation smeared across the glass
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far more than the others That was
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strange The seal must be broken she
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thought But as she wiped it she noticed
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something weirder Faint finger streaks
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on the inside like someone had touched
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it recently A chill crept up her spine
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tiles Lena spotted damp footprints bare
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human and heading away from the freezer
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She followed them around the corner
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heart thumping but they stopped abruptly
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in front of the cereal shelf No one in
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sight no hiding places nearby It was
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like the person had vanished into thin
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air Worried someone was messing around
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Lena opened each freezer door along the
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aisle Frozen pizzas ice cream vegetables
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Then she gasped Behind the glass of the
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final unit was a man in blue gym shorts
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and a t-shirt wedged upright between
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frozen turkeys His eyes were wide and
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scared "Please," he whispered lips
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trembling "Don't tell them," Lena
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staggered back heart pounding "The man
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didn't try to get out He just stood
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there shivering eyes locked on hers with
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pure panic." "Who are you?" she demanded
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"Why are you hiding?" But he only shook
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his head They're here," he whispered
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"They're close." Lena felt a jolt of
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fear but she didn't know who they were
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Lena offered him her sweater trying to
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stay calm "You need help," she said He
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took it but kept glancing over his
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shoulder "You don't understand," he
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murmured "If they find me it's over."
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Lena hesitated Was he on drugs mentally
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unstable or was he genuinely terrified
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of something no one else could see She
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headed to the security room to rewind
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the tape Curiosity mixed with dread She
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scanned footage from the last 2 hours
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Nothing Then a 5-minute window showed
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static as if the feed had glitched Just
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dead air The time matched exactly when
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she must have found the man How did he
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even get in She muttered Suddenly a
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metallic bang echoed from the back
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entrance Lena jumped heart racing She
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checked the loading dock Nothing visible
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but the delivery door's locking bolt had
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been snapped clean off Someone had tried
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to force their way in She returned to
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the freezer aisle quickly The man was
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still there now visibly shaking
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clutching her sweater Panicked the man
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bolted from the freezer He slipped hit a
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shelf and crashed to the floor in a heap
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of canned beans "They found me," he
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gasped Lena helped him up He looked like
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he hadn't eaten in days "Please," he
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said Don't let them take me back I
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escaped As she studied him she saw it A
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faded circular tattoo behind his ear It
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was strange and ritualistic something
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she'd seen years ago in a documentary
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about fringe cults Her stomach sank "Was
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this man part of one or worse running
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from one?" "What is this?" she asked He
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froze touching the back of his neck "My
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name is Jason," he said Lena's heart
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skipped That name tugged at a memory
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High school sophomore year A quiet boy
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who vanished without explanation Jason
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Barnes The kid who always drew in his
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sketchbook who stopped coming to class
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one day No way she whispered But the
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resemblance it was him older changed But
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him Lena remembered the posters around
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school the candlelight vigil the rumors
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Some said Jason had run away Others
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claimed his parents were involved Lena
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had cried when they found his sketchbook
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in the woods Now here he was shivering
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in a grocery store I was taken he said
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quietly Raised in a place you can't
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imagine Jason explained the cult called
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themselves the pure path They kidnapped
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kids raised them in isolation forced
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obedience I ran the first chance I got
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he said But they have people everywhere
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I didn't know where else to go I just
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wanted cold noise cameras somewhere they
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couldn't follow But clearly they had
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followed The store security monitor
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flickered A black van rolled into the
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loaded's windows tinted headlights off A
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tall expressionless man stepped out and
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scanned the storefront Jason tensed
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That's one of them he whispered He
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brings people back Lena's pulse surged
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She felt trapped between a nightmare and
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a choice she hadn't yet made The lights
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went out all of them Freezers groaned to
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silence Emergency red lights cast the
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store in eerie shadows Jason grabbed her
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hand They'll move fast You have to hide
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me Lena pulled him behind the serial
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display Footsteps echoed somewhere in
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the aisles "They never come alone," he
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added "There's more." Clutching her
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phone in the dark Lena called Jaime a
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high school friend turned investigative
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journalist "You remember Jason Barnes?"
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she whispered "He's alive He's here."
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"But someone's hunting him." Jaime
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didn't ask questions "Keep him safe I'm
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coming now." Lena hung up and steadied
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her breath In the dark Jason wept You
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don't understand he whispered "I haven't
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touched a phone in 15 years I forgot
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what movies sound like." I thought
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kindness was a lie they used to trap us
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Lena watched him crumble No longer just
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a fugitive but a man shattered by
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silence by isolation She squeezed his
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hand The cultist crept closer Lena
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grabbed a broom Jason grabbed a frozen
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turkey When the figure lunged around the
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shelf Jason struck first knocking him
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out cold Sirens echoed outside Jason
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collapsed in relief "They'll come
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again," he said There's always more Lena
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looked toward the door ready for whoever
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came next Police and Jaime arrived
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minutes later Jason was rushed into
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protection The cultist in the aisle was
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arrested Inside the van files photos
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maps evidence of dozens of other missing
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children Lena gave a statement hands
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shaking He didn't need saving she told
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the officers He just needed someone to
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listen A week later Lena watched the
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news Jason's face blurred for protection
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flickered on screen "I owe her my life,"
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he said "She opened a freezer and freed
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me." Tears filled her eyes She had gone
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to work that night expecting nothing But
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now because of her everything was
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different and someone had a second
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chance Thank you so much for watching If
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