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I press my hand against the stairwell door, feeling the weight of whatever is on the other side pressing back. It's eerily quiet, surprisingly. 

There is shuffling, no groaning. Just a heavy and questionable silence. My fingers twitch against the handle, and I take a deep breath before pushing it open.

The moment the door cracks, the stench hits me like a slap. Come rot, sweat, and something foul that makes my stomach churn. It's the unmistakable stench of the dead… and there are a lot of them.

The door swings open, and suddenly, they spill out in droves. It's like a sea of decomposing bodies. Their skin is sagging, eyes glazed with a lifeless milky sheen. They scramble forward with slack jaws, some missing chunks of their faces, others dragging broken limbs behind them.

I freeze.