The Distant Promise
The iron gates of the Chateau de Virelles were not merely closed; they were fused, the metal weeping with centuries of rust and a thick, black slime that smelled of rotting lilies. I stood before them in the driving rain, my wool coat soaked through to the skin, the cold biting into my bones with a persistence that felt less like weather and more like judgment. I was not supposed to be here. I...
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