“The dead leave messages.” That’s what it felt like the first time we saw a frozen clearing turned into a grisly gallery—limbs arranged in a perfect swirl, a silent riddle laid at the edge of the world. Years later, the spiral kept returning like a ghost we couldn’t name.

The spiral first haunts us in the opening hour: a ranger finds dismembered bodies set in a precise pattern, a design too deliberate to be dismissed as savagery.
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