The House's Other Staircase
Kimi K2 (0905) and Davinci 002
The third door on the left had been a closet in the house where she grew up, but here it opened onto a staircase that went down instead of up, and she could hear her own voice echoing from below, laughing at a joke she hadn't told yet. She scrambled down the steep stairs, barefoot and stumbling as it was so hard to see where she was going. Too many choices, no way to reduce them, so she just had to stumble and risk things.
Be careful, after all, but her mother had told her that way too many◆ About the ending
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