Chapter 10: I Counted to the Twelfth Day
Nessa's POV
I was standing by one of the colonnade pillars when they carried the chest across the courtyard.
The wood was old. When they lifted it, a fine layer of dust rose and drifted slowly through the light. I watched it pass through the moon gate. I watched it disappear around the corner of t...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Sixtieth Jar
2. Chapter 2: The Door Was Locked From the Outside
3. Chapter 3: My Wife Is Well-Behaved Tonight
4. Chapter 4: Her Seat
5. Chapter 5: Three Rings of Keys
6. Chapter 6: The Second Set of Footprints in the Snow
7. Chapter 7: They Put the Letter Back
8. Chapter 8: The Brass Key with Three Teeth
9. Chapter 9: I Just Didn't Want Her to Hurt Anymore
10. Chapter 10: I Counted to the Twelfth Day
11. Chapter 11: He Took the Ninth Volume
12. Chapter 12: Maeve's Last Lesson
13. Chapter 13: Just Stand There
14. Chapter 14: Which Entry Point Did They Use That Night
15. Chapter 15: I Left Through the North Gate
16. Chapter 16: Keep Walking, Don't Look Back
17. Chapter 17: I Spoke Those Three Words
18. Chapter 18: Written Down
19. Chapter 19: No One on the Steps
20. Chapter 20: The Sound That Never Came
21. Chapter 21: Eleven People, One Long Table
22. Chapter 22: The Scroll Nobody Could Read
23. Chapter 23: Ash and Nothing
24. Chapter 24: Why Didn't You Come — Five Years Ago
25. Chapter 25: Her Hand
26. Chapter 26: The Northernmost Slot in the Fourth Row
27. Chapter 27: The Man Who Stopped Writing
28. Chapter 28: Kitchen, Deceased
29. Chapter 29: Where Were You, Those First Three Days
30. Chapter 30: The Name Is on Record
31. Chapter 31: He Smelled My Wrist
32. Chapter 32: He Cannot Say Her Name
33. Chapter 33: The White Dress
34. Chapter 34: You Don't Have to Take the Name
35. Chapter 35: Her Room
36. Chapter 36: The Knife
37. Chapter 37: Greygate
38. Chapter 38: My Name Is Voss
39. Chapter 39: Ask Me, Then
40. Chapter 40: The Sixty-First Jar
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