Chapter 7: Rose Manor (Six)

Inside Room 2, the curtains billowed where the wind had swept them open, and they remained that way.

The translucent window offered an unobstructed view of the castle gardens below.

Beneath a starless sky, a violet sickness crept through the tangled flora, blurring the lines between branch, stem, and leaf, until the garden was a mass of spectral, looming shadows.

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