Hotel Mariahilf
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The Hotel Mariahilf loomed in Graz like a faded postcard from another era, its peeling wallpaper whispering secrets of centuries past, where laughter once danced through its now-empty halls. Shadows flitted at the corners of vision, and the disembodied echoes of a woman in white lingered in the air, her soft cries swallowed by the oppressive silence as guests shuffled restlessly in their rooms, longing for the dawn that felt ever so distant. Yet, for all the charm it wore like a tattered blanket, the hotel had a way of ensnaring those who dared to listen too closely; many fled with tales of haunting laughter, their eyes wide with the terror of what theyd glimpsed-a figure gliding just beyond reach,