a woman standing on a hill with a church in the background

**Title: "Sunless Shadows"**In a town nestled beneath perpetual clouds, a young woman named Alice worked tirelessly indoors, oblivious to how long she had gone without sunlight. She hadn’t thought about vitamin D in years--after all, it was just a vitamin. But strange things began to happen.First, it was her sleep. She couldn’t rest, even though her body ached with exhaustion. Her bones felt as if they were made of glass, throbbing every time she moved. The doctor diagnosed her with a severe vitamin D deficiency, warning her, “You need sun, Alice. Your bones are starving, your immune system is vulnerable.”But Alice couldn’t bring herself to go outside. Every time she opened the curtains, it felt as though a shadow watched her from behind the clouds, waiting. Desperate, she began taking supplements, desperate to get her strength back.But then things got worse.The pills, once a lifeline, became a curse. The more she took, the more the shadows thickened. Her doctor called with a frantic warning, “Alice, you’re o