# Half Night *A Night That Shouldn't Exist*

#half night# epishode-7

## Chapter 7: Shadows at Dawn

The hotel’s power returned at 6:00 AM.

Lights flickered back to life, but the warmth never did.

Smit sat on the cold floor, his arms wrapped around his knees, staring at nothing.

Jini sat beside him, silent, exhausted.

Pole paced slowly, muttering prayers under his breath.

The cellar door had been sealed from the inside.

Keri was still gone.

Outside, the morning sun touched the hotel’s windows — but it couldn’t touch what had happened inside.

Inspector Awasthi arrived with a team.

He looked around, disturbed by the blood stains, the cracked mirrors, and the look in the children’s eyes.

“Pack everything,” he ordered. “We’re sealing this place by 2:30 AM tonight.”

But something strange had already begun —

When they tried to leave the premises, the gate was jammed shut.

None of the cars would start.

It was like something didn’t want them to leave.

Pole said it first. “The hotel... it's alive.”

Inspector Awasthi dismissed it. “You’re in shock.”

But Smit stood up, slowly. “No. He’s right.”

The inspector turned. “And who are you?”

Smit looked at him, his voice low.

“I think this place chose us.”

Jini whispered, “We shouldn’t have come.”

Outside, the fog grew again, curling around the police vans, hugging the trees.

From a distance, someone was watching through the same mirror…

The one hidden in the cellar wall.

And from within the mirror,

Keri’s eyes opened.