Letters in the Shadow
Downpours of heavy rain began slamming against the roof, the drops cascading down my windowpane in thick, distortion-filled sheets.
Driven by a sudden, terrifying instinct, I walked slowly toward the window. I pulled back the heavy velvet curtains and looked down at the cobblestone street two stories below. The street was completely deserted, illuminated only by the dim, flickering orange light of the street lamps. Rain poured down the gutters, washing over the slick stones.
Then, through the blurring sheets of water, I saw it.
Parked directly across the street, right at the iron gates of the abandoned estate at the end of the road, was a massive, black wooden carriage. Its two heavy hor