The Cursed
The steady rhythm of her heart, the distant hum of the house, the faint creak of floorboards beneath her bare feet—all of it stuttered to a halt.
The room around her, once familiar, now felt like a stage lit by dying candles: heavy velvet drapes swallowing the moonlight, dust motes suspended in amber beams, the faint metallic tang of old blood lingering on the tongue though none had been spilled.
She still clung to questions meant for her parents truths they had buried beneath decades of silence.
What exact transgression had summoned this entity? What debt of blood and bone had they incurred that now demanded repayment from their daughter’s flesh? Without those answers, how could she weigh t
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