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James Sunderland never thought he’d return to Silent Hill. Not after what he’d done, not after the choice he was forced to make. He and Mary had tried to rebuild a life in Ashfield after the infection spread through Silent Hill, but no one could escape its reach. The virus crept from the abandoned town like a shadow, claiming lives and twisting bodies in nearby cities—including Ashfield. When Mary fell ill, James knew there was no cure—no escape from the horrors of Silent Hill. Driven by love and despair, he’d done the unthinkable: he’d freed her from her suffering. And he’d never forgiven himself.

Then the letter came.

Written in Mary’s handwriting, the words felt like a dagger in his mind, taunting him with a chance he knew he didn’t deserve. “In our special place… waiting for you.” Her words echoed, both a haunting reminder and an impossible promise. How could she be reaching out to him now, after all this time? And why did it draw him back to the ghost town that had become the government’s forbidden zone?

Silent Hill was no longer just a place of beautiful landscapes and tourists. Quarantined and sealed off, it was a condemned city, its streets patrolled only by the infected—creatures that were once people, their humanity twisted and lost. Anyone found within its borders risked contamination, yet rumors circulated of strange happenings, of figures haunting the fog, and of those like James who dared to enter, chasing something—or someone—they’d lost.

With the letter clutched in his hand, he turned his back on Ashfield and its memories, taking his first step into the nightmare that Silent Hill had become. He knew this journey might end in darkness, that he might find only punishment instead of peace. But if Mary was out there—even if only in his mind—he had to know.

Narrowly, he manages to get through the cordon.