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Welcome to the Peeg House.

Inside, the air smelled of wet wool, old woodsmoke, and something else—something sweet and musky, like overripe pears. The hallway was long and dim, lined with mismatched wallpaper: roses here, stripes there, a patch of faded nautical anchors near the ceiling. A grandfather clock ticked in the silence, but its face had no hands. Welcome to the Peeg House-

That’s what the faded, hand-painted sign said, nailed crookedly above a narrow door wedged between a pawnshop and a laundromat. The letters were cheerful—curly serifs, a little sunburst dotting the ‘i’—but the effect was anything but. The wood was rain-streaked. The brass handle was tarnished the color of a bad memory. Welcome to the Peeg House