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    Houses don't grow; they are not alive. And yet, with each renovation and addition the Strife family made to their manor, it grew like something alive, something with a soul. And somewhere along the way, that soul became corrupted and vile. Perhaps it was just his imagination, but Cloud always felt something wrong, heard things, saw things... But if a house is evil, is it because it is in its nature? Is it the foundations on which it was built? Is it the wood that makes up its bones? Or is it because the experiences within twisted it into something grotesque?

    After receiving a mysterious letter about the untimely passing of his elderly parents, Cloud finds himself called to return to a childhood home he'd fled from in the hopes of never having to return. But as the only child and heir to the Strife estate, Cloud returns only to be greeted by a twisted and sinister manor from his nightmares. And a butler that seemed as if he'd been born from the very walls of that twisted place. A butler appearing unchanged by time, and as unnerving as the thickest shadows in the dankest of places.

    Sephiroth/Cloud

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