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Five Nights at Freddy's The Silver Eyes

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steps; it felt like ages, like years might pass before she reached the bottom, and when<br />

she arrived she might be an old woman, her whole life spun out in the descent of<br />

these stairs.<br />

At last Charlie reached the end of the stairs, and she looked down to see th<strong>at</strong><br />

she had changed: her body was no longer small, nightgown-clad and barefoot, but<br />

her teenage body, tall and strong, and fully clothed. When she straightened from her<br />

fearful crouch she stood taller than the bannister, and she looked around <strong>at</strong> her<br />

childhood home, startled. This is me, she thought. Yes. This is now.<br />

Something banged in front of her: the front door was wide open and<br />

thudding irregularly against the wall, caught by the wind. <strong>The</strong> rain was whipping in,<br />

soaking the floor and lashing the co<strong>at</strong>rack th<strong>at</strong> stood beside it, rocking it back and<br />

forth as if it weighed nothing <strong>at</strong> all. Leaves and small branches were sc<strong>at</strong>tered on the<br />

floor, ripped from the trees and swept in, but Charlie’s eyes went to her old, familiar<br />

shoes, her favorites. <strong>The</strong>y placed ne<strong>at</strong>ly beside the m<strong>at</strong>, black p<strong>at</strong>ent le<strong>at</strong>her with<br />

straps, and she could see the rain pooling inside, ruining them. Charlie stood still for<br />

a moment, transfixed, too far for the rain to reach, but close enough for the haze to<br />

slowly wet her face. She ought to go to the door and close it.<br />

Instead, Charlie backed away slowly, not taking her eyes from the border of<br />

the storm. She took a step, then another—and her back hit something solid. She<br />

whirled around, startled, and saw it.<br />

It was the thing from her f<strong>at</strong>her’s workshop, the terrible, twitching thing. It<br />

stood on its own, bent and twisted, with a narrow, reddish canine face and an almost<br />

human body. Its clothing was rags, its metal joints and limbs stark and exposed, but<br />

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