+Velvet Noose+ Chapter 11Chapter XI. Bindings BrokenHave you really no clue of the hell I've been put through? Have you not seen the blood with which these walls are stained with truth? Like a doll on strings you trace my path, re-enact my every move…so that at last my doom becomes, likewise, the end of you.Urira Bellyra stood at the doorway of the salon. Her long curls had been cropped roughly close to her head and she wore clothes that could have been taken out of Delurianne's closet. She was blank-faced, and the gun was still poised in her hand.Trapped in shock of the pain, I could only slump against Delurianne, who received me in her arms. I was much weaken
+Velvet Noose+ Chapter 10 Chapter X. Fatal CarillonLet me hear the answer, lest the questions plague my sleep. Let me bear the burden, so long as life I get to keepThe house was silent. It was a silence so unnatural that I feared I had gone deaf… and there was no more Qa to speak and break the trance. I kept my tread slow and soundless. It was as though the gravity of the man's death had pulled the house into instant mourning… The mist hung heavily even within the living room – creeping on the floor like a living thing. The atmosphere seemed… possessed. She came into sight then, her black dress almost eerily carried by the intruding air, with soft black ribbo