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whisper Beneath the silk

Chapter 5 Unseaming

Word Count: 1419    |    Released on: 31/05/2025

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Five:

read s

le sound-but it echoed thro

r needle quivered in her grip, glinting in the candlelight. She had returned to the dressing room at dawn, un

m was w

was unra

felt Lilian's breath on her skin, heard the whisper of silk over stone, smelled the gh

ick

like a corpse at the foot of the hidden door. She worked carefully, a

ved stitch, th

e. At first, Evelyn thought they were stray tailoring

rd

me

te

rd, 1862

h, 1870 -

12th, 1894

d into the folds

s of

s of

sewn into

r mouth tasted like iron. She backed away fr

sn't haunted

haunted

left their story

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she no longer flinched from them. The manor was waking-she could feel it. Floors creaked behind her where no one walked. Mirrors breathed con

rner-and collid

verie. His hands caught her shoul

she said,

ce. "You look pale. Have y

art of the gown. There were names

mly. "The hou

" she asked. "T

n ways no one could explain. But every time it happened, a new gown appeared in the dre

ce cracked.

first the house chose. Or the

things. Evelyn searched his face. There was something frac

ppening again,"

er gaze.

whispere

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few day

steps of those who had vanished. She followed narrow stairwells that ended in bricked walls. Opened doors that led onl

ight-she

wn told

ng dress, only to be buried in it weeks later. A governess with t

s scr

a singer who never took her final bow. A christening dress with a

nal, tracing threads of history t

egan to f

kin. Her

e of the ma

tained faintly with crimson-though ther

was sewi

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art of the estate she had not yet explored. It had been

oated every su

Isadora

es were obscured. Slashed canvas. Shat

ra Th

stared

rls tight at her throat. Her smile was

er hand-

d than any she'd seen. Almost... too much so. Her

aggere

rtrait had

velyn turned away-an

had been

s of unused fabric. At the center sat a half-finished dr

ide it-

he tried to save her. She tried to save herself. B

ir of silver embroidery s

caught in the m

wasn'

stood

stant. W

th

blin

o

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velyn returne

ng, as if he kne

her," s

ded. "

Isa

han I ever did. She stitched wards into her clothing. Burned p

u stayed,"

did

silence for

said, "Com

lyn hadn't noticed before. It wound downward, behind

a chamber that pulsed

den a

g ledgers. And in the center-a sin

ded it

ian

ned it

sses, but beneath each drawing, she had wr

was beautiful w

e best when

o free me. Sh

teeth. And I was

closed

ldn't b

. "There's a room no one speaks of. Bene

s down

ed. "The f

-

Evelyn dre

h centuries of silence. The walls were raw

tood bes

ted to a

-a wedd

e veil covered the face of the mannequin,

iv

it

Lilian whispered. "

ached for

s of the dre

-

oke at

burned agai

as t

idden passage, back in

form sti

wore a diff

fina

Veiled.

had not t

rors fl

Evelyn now

own

ot he

the bodice

t like

echoed fro

nish

ed her s

egan

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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