
You play Hadria Fullerton, composing music in stolen hours inside a house that treats ambition as ingratitude, arguing late at night with your siblings about whether talent can survive duty. At dawn a broken carriage wheel brings the novelist Valeria Du Prel to your door, and her plain talk about the cost of serious work is the first encouragement your family has never offered. When an admiring visitor, Hubert Temperley, invites himself to hear you play, Valeria's warning about what his admiration actually permits stays with you.
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