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With nothing else to do, you decided to visit Kristina.

It was very unsettling when you finally found her house since the neighborhood looked exactly the same as the one you, Lucille, and Atlas visited that one fateful day. Every step on their porch made an awful creak. You knocked on the door, half-thinking that this was a terrible idea and another thinking that this was exactly what Kristina needed.

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After a couple of minutes of waiting, knocking, and calling out Kristina's name, you were finally going to give up when you heard a very small gasp from the other side of the door. It was a faint, sharp gasp followed by a thud.

"Kristina?" You knocked in intervals so quick. You gave up on the door and tried peeking through the windows. Through a small crack where two curtains meet, you saw Kristina lying on the floor, blood oozing from her chest, creating a pool of blood beneath her, and a ghastly expression on her face.

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