I carried the coat. It was heavy. Wet with snow and something darker. The stone walls pressed in. The air tasted of iron. I walked the corridor. My boots echoed. The echoes sounded like teeth chattering. I was not alone. I could not see the others. I felt them. They breathed in the dark. I held the coat tighter. The fabric soaked my hands. It was a velvet cloak. It had belonged to my mother. She wore it to the court. She wore it to the bed. She wore it to the grave.

The door was ajar. It creaked. I pushed it open. The room was small. A single window. A single bed. And a mirror.

The mirror was broken. One shard remained. It caught the moonlight. It threw a cold slice of silver across the floor. I stepped in. My shadow stretched. It did not match my body. It was thinner. It was sharper. It held the coat.

"Who goes there?"

I stopped. I did not turn. I knew the voice. It was my father’s. Or perhaps it was the wall. The walls spoke here. They always did.

"I am the keeper," I said. My voice was small. It cracked. I swallowed. I tried again. "I am the keeper of the velvet."

Silence. Then a laugh. Low. Dry. Like leaves skittering on stone.

"Velvet," the voice said. "You think it is velvet?"

I looked at my hands. The coat was still in my arms. I touched it. The texture was wrong. It was not soft. It was slick. It was warm. It pulsed.

"It is skin," I whispered.

"Yes."

The door swung wide. I did not move. A figure stood there. Tall. Robed in gray. The face was hidden. But I knew the shape of it. I knew the way the hood fell. I knew the scent of ozone and old blood.

It was me.

No. It was her. The one before me. The one who came before the dark.

"Give it," the figure said.

I clutched the coat. My knuckles were white. "Why?"

"Because it is hungry," the figure said. "And you are full."

"I am not full. I am empty."

"Then it will take what is left."

I looked at the mirror. The shard reflected my face. But the eyes were wrong. They were wide. They were terrified. And they were not mine. They were the eyes of a child. My daughter’s eyes.

She had gone to the window three days ago. She had said the sky was bleeding. She had said the birds were screaming. I had told her to come inside. I had told her the storm was just a storm. I had lied.

The figure stepped closer. The floorboards groaned. The air grew thick. It smelled of rot.

"I cannot let go," I said.

"You must."

"If I let go, she is gone."

"She is gone already."

"No." I shook my head. The motion was sharp. Pain shot through my neck. "She is in the coat. I felt her. I felt her heartbeat."

The figure tilted its head. A gesture of pity. Or amusement. "You are the first to say that in a hundred years."

"Then I am the first to be wrong."

"No. You are the first to be right."

The room spun. The lights flickered. The stone walls began to breathe. I could feel the dust falling. It landed on my shoulders. It was heavy. It was warm.

I looked at the coat again. It was moving. The folds shifted. The buttons clicked. They sounded like fingers tapping on a table.

"Who are you?" I asked.

"I am the next," the figure said. "I am the one who comes when you stop."

"I am not stopping."

"You are already stopped. Your heart beat once. Then it stopped. You have been walking for an hour. You do not feel your legs. You do not feel your breath."

I tried to breathe. I could not. The air was gone. The room was sealed. The window was black. The moon was gone.

"Give it," the figure said.

I looked at the mirror. The shard was growing. It spread across the glass. It spread across the wall. It covered the bed. It covered the floor. I was standing on glass. I was standing on my own reflection.

The reflection was smiling.

I screamed. But no sound came out. The sound was in the coat. The coat hummed. The coat sang. It sang a lullaby. It was the song my mother sang. It was the song I sang to my daughter.

*Sleep now, little bird. The sky is blue. The wind is kind. The night is long. But you are safe.*

The melody twisted. The words changed.

*Sleep now, little bird. The sky is black. The wind is knife. The night is long. And you are meat.*

I dropped the coat.

It fell to the floor. It did not land. It dissolved. It became smoke. The smoke rose. It swirled. It formed a shape. A woman’s shape. She was tall. She was thin. She had no face.

She looked at me.

I looked at her.

I recognized the dress. It was the dress my daughter wore to the garden party. The blue dress. The one with the lace collar.

"Hello, Mother," the shape said.

I fell to my knees. The glass beneath me shattered. I did not feel the cuts. I only felt the cold.

"You took her," I said.

"I kept her," the shape said. "She was afraid. She needed keeping."

"She was my child."

"And I was your mother. I kept you. I kept you safe. I kept you warm. I kept you in the velvet."

The memory hit me. I was seven. I was in the closet. The war was outside. The bombs were falling. The walls shook. The dust fell. I was alone. I was terrified. I heard my mother’s voice. It was calm. It was sweet.

*Come out, my darling. Come out to the velvet. The world is too loud. The world is too sharp. Come in. Come in. I will hold you. I will hold you tight. I will hold you until you stop moving.*

I had gone to her. I had crawled out of the closet. I had put on the coat. The coat was too big. It swallowed me. I did not move. I did not breathe. I did not cry. I stopped being a child. I stopped being a person. I became the coat.

The shape in the smoke leaned down. It touched my face. The touch was cold. It was like ice. It was like death.

"Is it done?" the figure from the door asked.

I looked up. The smoke was gone. The coat was gone. The room was empty. The mirror was whole. It was no longer broken. It was clear. It showed me.

I was old. My hair was white. My face was lined. My eyes were dry.

I was free.

No.

I was not free.

I looked at my hands. They were black. They were stained. The stain was deep. It went to the bone.

The figure from the door stepped in. It removed its hood. It was me. It was younger. It was me at twenty. I was me at thirty. I was me at fifty. I was all of me.

"Take it," the figure said.

"I have nothing to take."

"Take yourself."

I stood up. My legs were weak. My head was heavy. The room was spinning. The air was thin.

I looked at the door. It was open. The night was outside. The snow was falling. It was soft. It was silent.

I walked to the door. I stepped over the threshold. I stepped into the snow.

The cold bit me. The pain was sharp. It was real. I felt it. I felt the ground. I felt the wind. I felt the time.

I looked back. The door was closed. The light inside was gone.

I walked into the dark.

The snow covered my footprints. It covered my path. It covered my name.

I was no one.

I was everyone.

I was the coat.

I was the smoke.

I was the silence.

I walked. I did not stop. I did not look back. The pain was there. It was in my hands. It was in my heart. It was in the space where my daughter used to be.

I embraced it. I held it. I kept it.

I was the keeper.

The snow kept falling. It kept falling. It kept falling.

I was gone.

I was here.

The wind howled.

The wind was quiet.

I closed my eyes.

The world was still.

The world was gone.

I was the velvet.

I was the dark.

I was the end.

And it was enough.

It was not enough.

It was everything.

I opened my eyes.

The snow was red.

I smiled.

I walked on.

The road was long.

The road was short.

The road was mine.

I was the petal.

I was the storm.

I was the stillness.

I was the breath.

I was the silence.

I was the voice.

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I was the truth.

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I was the daughter.

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I was the self.

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I was the fullness.

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I was the satiety.

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I was the peace.

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I was the beginning.

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