The fog clung to Blackwood Manor like a shroud. It had clung to it...

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The fog clung to Blackwood Manor like a shroud. It had clung to it for three hundred years, and Lady Jinruo Liang knew, with the certainty of someone who had spent fifteen years in India learning about inherited things, that some fog does not lift.

She stood on the moor road, her trunk at her feet, and looked up at the house. It was exactly as her mother had described it in the letters that had stopped arriving when Jinruo was seven: all pointed windows and broken gargoyles, a great stone beast sleeping in the heather. The front door was oak, black with age, and the iron knocker was shaped like a lion's head with one eye missing. She had...

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