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whisper Beneath the silk

Chapter 6 A Mirror Of Her Making

Word Count: 1541    |    Released on: 31/05/2025

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: A Mirror

le slipp

ling beneath the skin. The gown beneath her hands was softer than any she'd touched-

ng her hand to her c

since she'd beg

ore dangerous. She no longer worked in the daylight hours. She coul

once hung in a r

ns, faded stitches, and lengths of time-worn lace. Each gown gave way to memories-not just Lilian's

h unraveling

always

s. Sometimes it struck Evelyn in the middle of mundane tasks: brushing her hair, folding

noticed

eir encounters were terse and charged, a

anor was shap

dreamed in

prop

, something el

carefully covered-had

n't sh

d...

corridor, she had found a chil

ever lived

sure of

ye

-

e moors. Each flash of lightning illuminated the chaos she'd made-thread spools unraveled

before the

ridal

d cha

bt

ed into something closer to bone. And beneath the hem-a new thread h

dn't s

as ce

had her st

tens

ma

ed in the mir

tu

th

own ref

tion did not breath

oached the

tilted its head

om was darker. O

ure in the g

elyn d

to her ears, barely a

s cannot res

s knees

candle flared and died. Shadows pooled a

h

tst

the h

l o

Delibera

for the door, wr

o

ridor, painted go

frame of his study, shirt sleeves rolled up

hing

there at night,"

didn't

he walked

legacy," she said.

. "It always ble

ed closer

lready

nched. "I'm

t you are the echo that calls

anced down

hadn't slept in years. He gestured for he

hesi

tepped

-

her, and bergamot. The fire was low.

d glass of brandy and

though her ha

ured to

lyn

did

e said at last. "But every time

Evelyn sa

pa

was stronger than me. She never fea

d to her?" Ev

ped to the fire. "

he lov

what I might have been. But sh

hat ar

t her

nto something olde

like the house i

oetry," Evelyn said. "But I

e with me

wh

ere it

-

had always b

ate, sealed with a k

laric

h a loose floorboard in the

roaned in

e creak

windows, sealed. They moved in silence past dust-covered f

oom that looked more like

the walls, lon

enter-an emp

er buried,"

m, breath hitching.

her. Only the dress. Cha

s heart

e said. "Not her body. B

wall and pressed hi

ope

her

er pa

ne, na

desce

st hidden staircase. The air thickened with dust,

h

ham

he one she'd

was not fille

illed wi

s of

and silk. Lea

ery spine

.

ped forward

s this

it before the end. Sewing stories into

reached

without

k was

rds fa

uld be ours. But when I saw the gown-it was not

her

to do. That she would take the story back.

closed

as sh

of the circle of shelve

nd. I thought the house gave me power. It didn

?" Evely

d, "it's aski

-

d before the mirror, locket i

pulse of th

beneath the

in every

here she ended an

idal gown did not

loor, as if worn by someone

d not

pped in

mbed her ski

et laced

rror r

me, she ste

-

e same ballroom

was who

lli

iv

no longer ash and sorrow, but

nd it,"

," Evelyn

. "This is th

gan-an orche

eld out

n too

dan

not with memories-but with futu

finish it,"

ow

truth. Tea

n sto

do... I'll

tly. "It never was. The house dress

looke

ion wore Li

heart be

ong

to the bodic

m, the gown

llroom

sic st

rld un

-

woke on

own in tatte

rnal page ope

rase had be

more left to f

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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