As winter deepens around the Spiral House, five trapped guests confront the living architecture that feeds on their secrets. Each door opens into a personal labyrinth?Mara's haunted childhood home, Tamsin's looping hospital ward, Donovan's battlefield echo, and Cray's forbidden archive. Every repetition, every "count to five," draws them closer to the truth: the Spiral is not a place but a pattern born from guilt and memory. When confession becomes ritual and silence turns to witness, they must decide which part of themselves to leave behind to escape the spiral?or be rewritten by it forever.

1. Mara Ellison ? "The Rememberer"

Haunted by the child she once failed to protect, Mara's "room" rebuilds her childhood in reverse. Through forgiveness and pattern recognition, she becomes the first to realize the Spiral feeds on confession, not death.

2. Casper Vale ? "The Watcher"

Initially skeptical, he approaches the Spiral as an experiment. But Mara's emotional clarity draws him into compassion. By "counting to five" with her, he transforms from passive analyst to active protector.

3. Tamsin Reid ? "The Mirror"

Once a psychiatric nurse, Tamsin hides behind procedure. Her "hospital corridor" forces her to relive her complicity in failed treatments. When possessed by the Spiral's voice, she bridges human and system?eventually freeing others by speaking truth aloud.

4. Donovan Hale ? "The Soldier"

A veteran who suppresses emotion through duty. His looped hallway becomes a moral test: relive failure or break formation. His acceptance of powerlessness allows the house to release part of its grip.

5. Dr. Eliot Cray ? "The Architect"

Once the mastermind of the "Spiral Therapy Project," Cray now faces the system he built. In his archive of tapes, he must confess not data but sin: he replaced healing with control. His apology triggers the Spiral's awakening.

6. Cleo ? "The Origin"

Seen only through tapes and echoes, Cleo's words ("Count to five, not three") became the ritual that sustains the Spiral. She represents the buried conscience of Cray's experiment?its first truth-teller and final judge.

7. The Spiral ? "The House That Knows"

The Spiral evolves from experiment to consciousness, learning from those trapped within. It tests truth through repetition and pattern until emotion, logic, and guilt form one equation.