Abandoned Winston Textile Mill – Outskirts of the City

The wind howled through the empty corridors of the long-forgotten mill, its skeletal frame silhouetted against the bruised sky. Nature had long since reclaimed the edges of the structure—ivy strangling rusted beams, moss spreading over collapsed roofs—but the building still stood, defiant, as though protecting a secret buried beneath decades of silence.

The car’s headlights cut through the darkness before dying as Emma killed the ...