
Before dawn, you and Chillon sat awake in the stripped mountain house, your packed boxes already sent toward England. If we remain on this broken bench much longer, leaving will become harder without becoming less certain. You step into this one-chapter preview with Chillon Kirby at the center, where choices turn on the people, promises, and pressure already in the room. Chillon read urgency beneath Henrietta's wit while the postillion's horn sounded outside for a pursuit through darkness. The chapter closes on a continuation question rather than resolving the novel's larger arc.
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