Gredg -

That low, slow groan, coming from inside the wall, inside the sentence, inside the space between this word and the next?

I tried to research gredg obsessively. It appears nowhere—except once. A 1927 shipping log from a port that no longer exists (Reykjarfjörður, erased from modern maps by a clerical error or something worse). The entry: "Crate 44 – Contents: One gredg (alive). Destination: None. Return to sender refused." That low, slow groan, coming from inside the

I woke up with scratches on my forearm. Three parallel lines. Not deep, but deliberate. coming from inside the wall

The next morning, my keys were not where I left them. Not lost, just… elsewhere. On the kitchen counter, though I never go there first. I shrugged it off. inside the sentence