It was just a wrong step. Anna had been distracted, scrolling through her phone as she walked home from work. One moment, the cracked pavement stretched ahead of her. The next, the ground beneath her seemed to dissolve. She stumbled, gasping, and fell—not onto concrete, but into a sea of yellowed, buzzing wallpaper. The air was stale and thick, filled with the faint hum of fluorescent lights. She turned in a circle. Endless, identical hallways stretched in every direction, lined with damp, patterned walls and stained carpet. The smell of mold was overpowering. "Hello?" she called, her voice trembling. It echoed unnaturally, bouncing off invisible corners. No response. Then came the noise. A soft scuttling, like claws on carpet, growing louder. Her heart raced. She broke into a run, her heels slamming against the floor as the hum of the lights grew distorted and warbled. The sound chased her, closer, faster. She turned a corner, and her breath hitched—a figure loomed ahead, tall, gaunt, and wrong, its limbs too long and its head twitching unnaturally. It didn’t move. Not yet. Anna froze, tears streaking her face, as the fluorescent light above flickered and dimmed. The last thing she heard was the scuttling behind her as the figure began to tilt its head and take a step forward. Then the light went out.