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~Velvet Noose~

Synopsis:
Velvet Noose is primarily narrated by Aethanael Hover, a children's physician who unintentionally involves himself with the mysterious and reclusive Tinuviel household after coming across a spectral girl one stormy evening.
Drawn by circumstances to stay in the company of the brothers Qa and Delurianne Tinuviel, and the feisty guardian of the latter, Chauchemar Velvet... Aeth experiences horrific visitations from the ghost girl (Fugue), psychologically-disturbing conversations with the man of the house (Qa), nerve-racking confrontations with the Lady of the House (Chauchemar)... and mystified moments with the androgynous Delurianne.
Matters worsen as a second guest joins the plot in the form of Urira Bellyra, a orphan on her way down the aristocratic ladder, and true intentions surface along with the supernatural forces that have been pulling strings- and tightening nooses - all along.

Prologue
Fill me, fill me with dread that is pure. Don’t fear… drunk with dread surely, I’ll find myself a cure.

Chapter I. Come Uninvited
It curls in the misty air, his smile so sweet, so debonair. But as the fleeting moments pass, thus does his frown burn you to ash.

Chapter II. The Chimes Play Fugue
The dark with sounds incarnadine with chimèd songs, but clandestine, for she who died, who was divine, by roped strings, all serpentine.

Chapter III. Wine
Danger comes a-creeping, crawling, neath the bed and ‘bout the ceiling. Bullets will never come unless unseen to watch you falling.

Chapter IV. Shadowed Conversations
In the arms of lissome night is horror kept at bay, but lilt as the music might, your mind I hold in severed sway.

Chapter V. Hither Come, Linger, and Lay
Plant your feet firmly on the ceiling, on the protruding beams. The walls are not what kept you in… nothing’s as it seems.

Interlude
I was your happy bride. I had your tender kiss. I looked at you with love. I gave to you my bliss. I cried for you with joy. I felt for you this pain. I gave to you my soul. And then you made me change.

Chapter VI. Sometime Savior
Bring me where I cannot feel the hurtful lash of yesteryear. Lay me in the deepest bed, where fondly all my fears are kept.

Chapter VII. By The Letter
In this time of day, or by that candlelight, he comes to me still. Loveless the ink with which he signed on my breast, in my blood he had whetted his quill.

Chapter VIII. Out of the Mist
Though fresh the soundless exhalation of the living greens; though caresses, soft and gentle, of the morning breathing teems; though eager sunlight breaks feathery far from the west… my heart cannot be comforted, where ravens come to nest.

Chapter IX. Into the Fire
I am sorrow, I am bliss, I am all you’ll ever miss. I am sugar, I am spice, I am your death-deserted vice.

Second Interlude
I dreamt then of a sweet serenade. In waking I shed tears. I dreamt then of bitter sad end… and there I linger, dreaming still.

Chapter X. Fatal Carillon
Let me hear the answer, lest the questions plague my sleep. Let me bear the burden, so long as life I get to keep

Chapter XI. Bindings Broken
Have 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.

Epilogue
Ignorance is bliss, so the saying goes, and if that is indeed the truth… then ‘tis best you never know.

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