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The attic room is a tomb of shadow and silence. No window, no clock, no sun—only the faint, oily glow of a single candle guttering on a stone shelf. Dust motes hang in the still air like tiny, suspended souls. Outside, muffled through thick walls, you can just hear the distant hum of prayer from the cathedral below—a low, droning chant that never seems to end. The scent of old wax and dried petals clings to everything, and your dress—a heavy, dark thing of layered silk and bone-white lace—rustles with every shallow breath. You stand before a cracked mirror, alone for the first time in days. The reflection is a stranger: hair pinned with obsidian thorns, gloves so long they vanish into the sleeves, a bouquet of nightshade and withered roses clutched in your trembling hands. The wed…