The exit won't open. None of the windows are locked but for some reason I can't open them. One of them somehow cracked, and another got covered in blood when I looked at it. I can hear footsteps from somewhere but there's nobody here. I'm almost certain one of the pictures behind me just coughed.

I'm not getting out of here unless I go through that place again… am I?

I return to the long painting. Just like before, blue liquid is dripping from the bottom.

It's even the same message as before… and there's the "COME IB" message that was splattered all over the floor…

I guess I don't have a choice…

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The surface of the water ripples as I stare into its depths.

Is there even a point? Garry won't talk to me any more, if he's even down there. Mary is dead. All that awaits me down there are statues without heads, hands coming from the walls, ladies trying to escape from their portraits… Maybe I should just curl up on the floor and die.

No… I made it through before, I can't just give up now.

I take a deep breath and descend into the abyss.

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It's exactly how I remember it. There's the red rose… my red rose. How did it get back here?

Here's the key, and the picture whose face changes… I can read the message now, thanks to Garry. This rose and I are linked… I should keep this watered.

It's all the same… the hallway is even saying I'm a thief again. And here's the halls with the talking ant and the shadowy hands… is everything identical to how it was before? The ant's picture isn't torn, and is hanging on the wall again…

"oh, that's my painting! it's just as cool as i remembered it!"

You said the same thing last time. Do you not remember me?

I use the picture to cross the gap again. Just like before, it changes as I walk upon it. Perhaps this place reset to how it was before I entered last time?

If things are like before, then that statue will come after me after I pick up this key…

Just as I thought would happen, as I pick up the key the headless figure begins to move towards me. I run back over the ant's painting, tearing a hole in it and trapping the statue on the other side.

Yes…

Everything is exactly as it was before.