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... mayor in some way—refused his 'arrangement,' questioned his authority, or tried to leave town. All disappeared without a trace."

"No bodies were ever found," I noted, connecting this to what the woman had told me.

"Because they're used in the ritual," Ava confirmed. "I spoke with an elderly man who's lived here his whole life. He showed me a journal his grandfather kept—records of disappearances going back nearly seventy years, all following the same pattern."

"Seventy ye ...

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