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whisper Beneath the silk

Chapter 3 Lilian

Word Count: 1217    |    Released on: 31/05/2025

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r Thre

her long after she le

li

a gown associated with death. Evelyn had felt something-almost like a pulse-as her fingertips grazed the

t

the shush of candlelight. Sleep wouldn't come. She lay in bed with the covers drawn to her chin, s

ad sh

rly. Another woma

. Evelyn dressed quickly and skipped breakfast, returning to the dressing room with new resolve.

uette suggested the early Edwardian era, perhaps 1905 or 1906. A time of quiet rebelli

ut on velvet and be

n scrap of muslin paper with blurred

ian b

passed th

low. In one of the cuff seams, a button had been replaced with a small black bead-not orig

ssage th

ket

h high cheekbones and a mouth slightly parted as if caught in the middle o

rtrait, a si

ra Th

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notes, she now kept the sketches, the scraps, and the fragments she dared not leave in the open

were

t of glamour or elegance, but of surveillance. Fear. Women caugh

esence of Lilian lurking

at afternoon in the ha

Lilian?"

st slightly. "W

o one of the gowns. And a

y Thorne had many visitors.

not an

house remembers what others for

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crumbling romances, and dry accounts of textile trades from centuries past. But in a slim volu

was never formally announced. She vanished prior to the engagement's formal debut. Local rec

the words with

vani

arry Alaric, and Isadora had worn the death gown later-

ped the

host the house r

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, she drea

n't the girl in r

. High-ceilin

bleeding, fingers pricked by a thousand needles. The mannequins around her weren't

turned to

li

ead. Her voice caught in her throat. And as Lilian reached

heet was torn where

bed, someone had placed

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t Alaric the

ight against the wind. His profile was sharp, as though sculpted rath

said, standing beside him

spond for a

ever meant

appened

love with the

reath caug

n, something dark fl

hou

truck her l

e-w

auty in the bones. Heard stories in the walls.

isappe

d," he said qui

stomach churn. "

ecome something else. So

wled across

n. Because you understand the language of fabric

heart pounding. "Yo

aid. "The

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eturn to her su

d to the dr

paper wrapped and bound with silk cord. When she unraveled it, the

ain. Gossamer sleeves. Beading so fine it shimmer

ed it in

gged black threa

first. I will

ay, breath catch

seemed

if sighing, and then-v

vo

nd

the mannequins.

eneath a tapestry she hadn't i

, fingers trembling,

d it:

Faintly

in th

dden

hands to it. The

was no

t knowing how-that

at the foot

tone bega

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1 Chapter 1 The Letter2 Chapter 2 The East Wing3 Chapter 3 Lilian4 Chapter 4 The Seam Between Worlds5 Chapter 5 Unseaming6 Chapter 6 A Mirror Of Her Making7 Chapter 7 The Thread That Remains8 Chapter 8 The Last Binding9 Chapter 9 The Quiet Undoing10 Chapter 10 The Sound of Thread Unraveling11 Chapter 11 The Weight of Ink and Ash12 Chapter 12 The Shape of Shadows13 Chapter 13 Beneath the Boneglass Sky14 Chapter 14 The House That Remembers15 Chapter 15 The House That Remembered16 Chapter 16 The Bride of Mirrors17 Chapter 17 The Hollow Alter18 Chapter 18 What the House Remembers19 Chapter 19 Echoes of the Living20 Chapter 20 The Naming Wind21 Chapter 21 The Door Without a Lock22 Chapter 22 The Garden That Remembers23 Chapter 23 The Voice Among Many24 Chapter 24 The Heart Remembers25 Chapter 25 Whispers26 Chapter 26 The Garden Remembers27 Chapter 27 The Silence Between Petals28 Chapter 28 Where the Thread Leads29 Chapter 29 The Naming of Light30 Chapter 30 The Thread31 Chapter 31 The Last Thread32 Chapter 32 The Echo of Something New33 Chapter 33 Beneath the Silk34 Chapter 34 The Mirror's Daughter35 Chapter 35 Annora36 Chapter 36 The Silent Echo37 Chapter 37 The Name the House Whispers38 Chapter 38 The Child of the House39 Chapter 39 The Unseen Cord40 Chapter 40 Where the Thread leads41 Chapter 41 Where the Thread leads42 Chapter 42 Where the Thread leads43 Chapter 43 The Stitching of Stars44 Chapter 44 The Needle Remembers45 Chapter 45 The Mother-Knot46 Chapter 46 The Pattern That Wasn't47 Chapter 47 The Unwritten Daughters48 Chapter 48 The Cost of Restoration49 Chapter 49 The Pattern That Watches50 Chapter 50 The Unspooling Within51 Chapter 51 The Chamber Below Bone52 Chapter 52 The Book That Wrote itself53 Chapter 53 The Threadwalker54 Chapter 54 The Needle Remembers(continued)55 Chapter 55 The Spindle's Oath56 Chapter 56 The Pattern That Waited57 Chapter 57 The Weavers of Becoming58 Chapter 58 The Thread That Would Not Bind59 Chapter 59 The Unwoven Emerges60 Chapter 60 The Needle Between Worlds61 Chapter 61 The Mirror That Sang Itself Open62 Chapter 62 What the Thread Forgot63 Chapter 63 The Seamwalker64 Chapter 64 The Mirror That Remembers Wrong65 Chapter 65 The Thread Reckoning66 Chapter 66 The land That Spoke Her Name67 Chapter 67 The Memory Lockef the Mountain68 Chapter 68 The Weave That Remembers69 Chapter 69 The Fracture Thread70 Chapter 70 The Shoreline Where Memory awaits71 Chapter 71 The Crown of Cinders72 Chapter 72 The Loom Beneath the Vein73 Chapter 73 The Mirror That Bled Names74 Chapter 74 The Blooded Thread75 Chapter 75 The Name that Named Itself76 Chapter 76 Where the Threads Remember77 Chapter 77 The Archive We Built78 Chapter 78 A New Thread in the Wind79 Chapter 79 The Bone-Loomer80 Chapter 80 A Cradle of Thread and Dust81 Chapter 81 A Cradle of Thread and Dust(2)82 Chapter 82 The First Seam