
A few days before Christmas, Mrs. Snow lay hard outside while sleigh bells crossed the red winter sunset. You step into this one-chapter preview with Sybil Brandon at the center, where choices turn on the people, promises, and pressure already in the room. Tonight I shall carry a plan that neither Harrington nor Sybil asked me to hear. The chapter closes on a continuation question rather than resolving the novel's larger arc.
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