
You returned slowly to the old garden after finding your mother's room closed for sleep. Iris, a poor innocent lies dead on the walk, and Puff-Ball may have shaken it after he found it. You step into this one-chapter preview with Mrs Delaney at the center, where choices turn on the people, promises, and pressure already in the room. The tower room returned no destination, only the duty waiting beyond its door. The chapter closes on a continuation question rather than resolving the novel's larger arc.
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