October 1982. Luna takes a temporary night watchman job at the Peabody Boarding House in Balsam Grove, a dying mill town in eastern Tennessee. The house is almost empty — just three long-term tenants, all elderly, all quiet. Her instructions are simple: walk the halls every hour, check the attic door stays locked, and never open it. The first week is boring. The second week, she starts hearing the rocking chair. It comes from above — a slow, rhythmic creak, always after midnight, always from the attic. The tenants say no one has been up there since before the war. But the sound is precise, patient, and getting closer to the door each night. This is a story about a locked door, a promise made by a dead woman, and what happens when you start counting the creaks. No jumpscares. Just a long, slow, upstairs silence that isn't quite empty.