About this story
Waking from one of your fits to find the man dead and the box open, you watch your closest friend William Dane produce a knife that is unmistakably yours. The congregation draws lots rather than search further, the paper names you, and your fiancee Sarah returns the ring before you leave Lantern Yard for a village called Raveloe.
How it opens
Lantern Yard gathered its narrow houses beneath smoke and the certainty of its fellowship.
William DaneSilas, the senior deacon asks you to sit beside him through the night.
The sickroom smelled of tallow, medicine, and damp wool drying near the grate.
MinisterBrother Silas has watched faithfully before, despite the weakness that overtakes him.
Choose
The darkness passes, and I wake where I stood.
Stay with me if you believe the fit may return.