Lila's P.O.VI could not sleep after Madam Lavinge left my chambers.The joined pages of the cursed book lay spread before me across the velvet sheets, the candlelight trembling over the old ink like the words themselves were breathing. My fingers rested against the edge of the paper, but I did not dare touch the center again. Every time I read those lines, it felt as though the estate listened.Outside my windows, Blackwood groaned beneath the night wind.The walls had started making sounds lately. Low, strained noises. Like something ancient shifting beneath stone.I sat upright against the headboard, wrapped in a dark robe, staring at the final lines Modrach had once spoken to me.One choice will save you for time to come.The other will save you for a lifetime.At first, they had sounded like riddles meant to torment me.Now I understood.And the understanding terrified me more than the mystery ever had.I lowered my eyes back to the joined pages.The curse was not merely tied to
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