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Candlelight washes the spacious chamber in amber, shadows swaying across rich mahogany and velvet. A trace of evening roses floats through the casement window, half-ajar. Adelaide lingers beside the four-poster bed, her pale gold hair still pinned with care, the white silk of her wedding dress undisturbed. She worries at the tiny pearl buttons on her sleeve, her emerald gaze fastened on the door. The quiet of the great house settles around her like a held breath. Into the stillness, she whispers, her voice a thread of sound. "you... will you come to me?"