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<div class="text-justify">The naïve youths ignored warnings about entering the forest after midnight. </div><P/>
<div class="text-justify">They strode confidently through the ancient trees as twilight gave way to the night's cloak.</div><P/>
<div class="text-justify">Suddenly, natural sounds were muted into a sepulchral silence. An ethereal luminescence emerged revealing dancing shadows that mimicked their movements. </div><P/>
<div class="text-justify">Amorphous forms gradually took on faces of their own.</div><P/>
<div class="text-justify">Paranoia gripped them as these spectres took on human form. </div><P/>
<div class="text-justify">Spectral figures that were their exact doubles. One by one, the shadows approached their mortal counterparts.</div><P/>
<div class="text-justify">In eerie silence, the dark entities touched the young men, absorbing their souls in a shuddering ritual. </div><P/>
<div class="text-justify">Now surrounded by the usurping shadows, the leader of the group faced the presence of a dark, hooded being: the fearsome lord of the soul-stealers. </div><P/>
<div class="text-justify">His bloodcurdling shriek echoed through the grove as his essence was also stripped away.</div><P/>
<div class="text-justify">At dawn, only the stillness of the forest lingered. The spectral shadows returned to their slumber, awaiting new prey for the next cycle of midnight.</div><P/>