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OBSCURA

Chapter 2 The House of Rooks

Word Count: 1018    |    Released on: 16/06/2025

city in shades

ys bleeding smoke into a sky split by lightning. Beneath it all, hidden among a crooked row of butch

lled it the H

ed, its gates chained with rusted iron etched in runes. Children threw rocks at its windows. Drunks crossed the street to avoid its st

relith need

could see the sealed door, the iron-knuckled knocker shaped like a rook's skull. But her eyes were on the third-floor wi

Elias's crypt pulsed

mo

and with a twist of her gloved fingers, the la

museum of dus

drifted like snow. A child's doll sat propped on a rocking chair, its eyes replace

ting o

er face. Vireli

d ash eyes, lips parted

oss

e room and tou

still

creaked b

what stood in the doorway

her hair and blood on her cheeks. Her eyes were stitched shut with silve

t be here," t

and broken, the other deep and ras

ower her blades.

tched eyes cri

is

ho gave yo

attled. The mirrors inside the do

for it," Virel

s," the gir

the room

en froze into place. The floor cracked. Shadows poured upward. The gi

e sobbed. "The Ho

from the easel. Beneath the canvas, wri

dri

He lives in every

ewhere deeper in the hous

rl was

e the

and sprinted t

on infinitely, a tunnel of black feathers and mirrors. Each mirror showed a different v

ometimes stone, sometimes bone,

ng chas

itte

aw

ath came fast and hard. The room was circular, walls covered i

her

mask. The statu

re raised, holdi

e was d

tched with gold fil

d with sil

her hand touched the mask, a th

Take it.

per louder t

. He wants th

he door exp

of stitched shadows, its face an amalgam of a hund

e white mask and pr

gh

a

ori

voice. A fire. Screams. The m

th

od in s

e. The house was gon

dar

ght. A room. Circula

e centre,

upi

n in re

-blank p

ck, Virelit

an," she

long time. You brought

nsed.

to you. The first fa

de. "I'm not pla

inch. "You a

ors bega

choices. Different sins. One killed. One s

"Every mask is a life

choose

ite mask into th

ered. Light con

she

ouse of Rooks. Alone. The r

is gone. The

ed obsidian mi

ed on it i

irst truth. Now co

ro

ed into

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