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Christmas Eve settled over London with the kind of cold that bit straight through wool.

The fog lay against the rooftops like a second skin, and by late afternoon, the daylight

had already drained away, leaving the streets dim and the air full of thick smoke. Passers

by hurried home, their faces buried in scarves and collars. Ebenezer Scrooge climbed the steps to his rooms, the fog trailing in behind him

before the door latched. A single candle gave off a thin circle of light, and Scrooge moved through

the corridor with a sort of weariness that comes at the end of a long year or a meaningless life. The quiet was the

first thing he noticed. The city itself carried a deep stillness, no carts, no footsteps,

not the shouts of children or the urging of vendors. Then the bell, on the wall, moved. It was a small vibration,

so slight it might have been caused by a draft in the once grand home. The metal trembled again.

Scrooge watched it tilt the movement deliberate enough that he knew it hadn't been his imagination.

In the next moment, the other bells in the house began to stir, soft, scattered, then gathering

themselves into a single rising sound that traveled through the stairwell and into the rooms beyond.

The noise filled the house, the way the fog filled the streets outside.

Slowly, completely, without asking permission.

Then the bells fell silent.

The stillness that followed felt different from before as though something had entered the room without making a sound. From the floor below came a heavy scrape.

The sound advanced step by step climbing the stairs. Back to that story in just a moment.

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