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The four women gasped as the roots pulled free from their feet. No blood. No scar. Just a sudden, terrible lightness.

Marta didn’t believe in any of it. She was a doctoral student in folk medicine, the kind who recorded stories but never let them under her skin. The missing persons posters on the lampposts—three since November, all women, all last seen near the Planty park ring—were a matter for the police. Not for her. m3zatka

Marta didn’t own a bone comb. But her late grandmother had left her a trunk of stuff : dried herbs, crucifixes with broken loops, a fox skull wrapped in red thread. And yes, at the very bottom, wrapped in a scrap of black velvet: a comb carved from a single piece of what looked like human femur. The teeth were sharp. The handle was shaped like a woman with her mouth sewn shut. The four women gasped as the roots pulled

“No,” Marta lied. “Not anymore.” Just a sudden, terrible lightness

Marta carried them up the stairs one by one. The last one—the girl in the communion dress—woke in Marta’s arms and said, “Is it still hungry?”

You have the bone comb. Bring it to the cellar under the Old Butchery. Midnight. Come alone, or the last woman dies.