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Leather Enough for One

Katita enters the hidden workshop at the cabin—where she crafts the armor destined to save her in the finale. But instead of one suit's worth of leather, she finds stacks organized by loop, by date, by wear patterns. Enough for a dozen suits. Each collar bears a name carved in her own handwriting.

Creeping horror: she recognizes the damage scars on one particular suit. She remembers *wearing* it. How many times has she entered this workshop? How many times has the leather been waiting? Katita: “No. I should have burned it last time.” But she has no memory of a "last time." The episode ends with Katita pulling on all twelve suits at once—a literal layering of repetitions—then shedding them one by one in an act that reads as prayer collapsing into despair.

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