It's been five years since the stars vanished and the last Lord died but the lights are on at the great house again. Nobody goes up there anymore, there's been no point since the last of the valuables were shipped to his distant relatives down south. We didn't know what had happened to his staff until a group of teens flew their drone over the old place.
The groundskeeper was the first one we saw and the only one still human enough to be considered safe. It seems like everyone who worked inside the great house decayed faster, grew further apart from what they once were and generally forgot what humanity meant to them.
The few maids and internal caretakers we've seen are barely recognisable against the old staff roster and there are dozens more who don't appear to have ever been human. We think they might have been brought back from wherever the family went on the night the stars vanished.
There's been talk of attaching a microphone to the drone to try and speak to the groundskeeper, to assess how human he still is and if he can be saved. The others have already been condemned but he still has a slim chance at outliving them and spending the rest of his days in a cushy facility instead of slowly decaying and warping til he's all but bones and sinew and more teeth than a human could ever contain.
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