Arthur Sterling looked smaller than Katherine remembered.That was impossible, of course. He had been dead long enough for memory to polish him into architecture. In family stories, Arthur Sterling was a founder, patriarch, genius, tyrant, protector, visionary, manipulator, depending on which bill had come due and who needed him blamed or praised.In the vault under Nightingale, he was simply an old man in a brown cardigan, holding a receipt with both hands as if afraid it might bite.Vance stood beside him in projection, one palm resting near Arthur's shoulder but not touching.Katherine noticed that immediately.He had learned.Or the Tail had.Do not touch what the event can punish."Grandfather," Katherine said.Arthur's recording turned its head.His eyes were not alive, but they carried intention. That made him more dangerous than most ghosts."Katherine," he said. "If you are seeing this, then the family has reached the c
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