Chapter one hundred and eighteen
Vivienne & Emeline
The room feels smaller tonight.
Not because its dimensions have changed—walls don’t bend for grief, ceilings don’t lower themselves out of pity—but because the air has thickened into something that clings to the skin, invisible fingers pressing at my throat. Emeline lies bes...
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Chapters
1. Prologue — “That Night in the Fire”
2. Chapter One – “A Beautiful Scene”
3. Chapter Two – “Inheritance of Silence”
4. Chapter Three – “The Girl in the Photograph”
5. Chapter Four – “An Unquiet Frame”
6. Chapter Five – “Absence in Frame”
7. Chapter Six – “The Man in the Gallery”
8. Chapter Seven – “We Don’t Name the Dead”
9. Chapter Eight – “Curated Memories”
10. Uncatalogued Exhibit: Emeline
11. Chapter Nine – “The Girl in Glass”
12. Interlude – “What the Evidence Doesn’t Say”
13. Chapter Ten – “Negative Space”
14. Memory Fragment – “A Curator’s Confession”
15. Chapter Eleven – “Playback”
16. Interlude – “Blueprints of the Unseen”
17. Archive Fragment – “The Line Between Us”
18. Chapter Twelve – “File Not Found”
19. Interlude – “Officially Missing”
20. Chapter Thirteen – “West Wing, West Memory”
21. Chapter Fourteen – “He Who Signed in Silence”
22. Chapter Fifteen – “The Sketchbook of Her”
23. The Emeline Dossier
24. Chapter Sixteen – “The Living Gallery”
25. Westchester Psychiatric Center
26. Chapter Seventeen – “The Girl Behind the Glass”
27. Chapter Eighteen – “Alcestis”
28. Chapter Nineteen – “The Door Edward Never Meant to Open”
29. Chapter Twenty – “The Suicide That Wasn’t”
30. Chapter Twenty-One – “The Wall That Doesn’t Exist”
31. Chapter Twenty-Two – “I Signed the Walls”
32. Interlude – “The Missing Line”
33. Emotional Insert – “The Room of Forgotten Things”
34. Chapter Twenty-Three – “The Girl in the Drawing”
35. Chapter Twenty-Four
36. Chapter Twenty-Five
37. Chapter Twenty-Six
38. Chapter Twenty-Seven
39. Emeline
40. Edward’s Voice Recording
41. Chapter Twenty-Eight
42. Interlude — Detective Marlowe
43. Chapter Twenty-Nine
44. FLASHBACK: The Winter Blackout
45. Chapter 30 – The Girl in Red
46. Chapter 31 – The Echo in the Floorboards
47. Interlude – Entry Without a Name
48. Chapter 32
49. Chapter 33
50. Chapter 34
51. Interlude IV — The Forgotten Room
52. Chapter 35
53. Chapter 36
54. Interlude — Before the Gallery
55. Interlude — What I Buried
56. Interlude — The Things I Remembered Too Late
57. Chapter 37
58. Chapter 38
59. Chapter 39
60. Chapter 40
61. Chapter forty-one
62. Chapter Forty-Two
63. Chapter Forty-Three- memory loop
64. Chapter Forty-Four
65. Chapter Forty-Five
66. Chapter Forty-Six
67. Chapter Forty-Seven
68. Chapter Forty-Eight
69. Chapter Forty-Nine -The Mirror Room
70. Chapter Fifty- The Surveillance Cut
71. Chapter Fifty-One— The Mirrors Remember
72. Chapter Fifty-Two—file seven
73. Chapter Fifty-Three—The canvas door
74. Chapter Fifty-Four— The Mirror Was Never Just Glass
75. Chapter Fifty-Five— Beneath the Glass
76. Chapter Fifty-Six —Interlude: The Archivist’s Final Entry
77. Chapter Fifty-Seven—Through the Mirror
78. Chapter Fifty-Eight— In Her Father’s Wake
79. Chapter Fifty-Nine— The Locked Door
80. Chapter Sixty Interlude—The Memory Loop
81. Chapter Sixty-One—The Erasure Log
82. Chapter Sixty-Two—The Locked Drawer
83. Chapter Sixty-Three—The Memory Loop
84. Chapter Sixty-Four—The Room She Wasn’t In
85. Chapter Sixty-Five—Interlude: The Missing Panel
86. Chapter Sixty-Six—Memory Loop
87. Chapter Sixty-Seven—The Observer
88. Chapter Sixty-Eight—The Loop Beneath My Skin
89. Chapter Sixty-Nine—The Absence He Left Me
90. Interlude
91. Chapter Seventy
92. Chapter Seventy-One
93. Chapter Seventy-Two
94. Chapter Seventy-Three
95. Chapter Seventy-Four
96. Chapter Seventy-Five
97. Chapter Seventy-Six
98. Chapter Seventy-Seven—The Protocol Vault
99. Interlude: Protocol E
100. Chapter seventy eight
101. Chapter seventy nine
102. Chapter eighty
103. Chapter eighty one
104. Chapter eighty two
105. Chapter eighty three
106. Chapter 84
107. Chapter 85
108. Chapter 86
109. Interlude – Echoes
110. Chapter Eighty-Seven
111. Chapter Eighty-Eight
112. Chapter Eighty-Nine
113. Chapter Ninety
114. Chapter Ninety-One
115. Chapter Ninety-Two
116. Chapter Ninety-Three
117. Chapter Ninety-Four
118. Chapter Ninety-Five
119. Chapter Ninety-Six
120. Chapter Ninety-Seven
121. Chapter Ninety-Eight
122. Chapter Ninety-Nine
123. Chapter One Hundred
124. Chapter One Hundred and One
125. Chapter One Hundred and Two
126. Chapter One Hundred and Three
127. Chapter One Hundred and Five
128. Chapter One Hundred and Six
129. Chapter one hundred and seven
130. Chapter one hundred and eight
131. Chapter one hundred and nine
132. Chapter one hundred and ten
133. Chapter one hundred and eleven
134. Chapter one hundred and twelve
135. Chapter one hundred and thirteen
136. Chapter one hundred and fourteen
137. Chapter one hundred and fifteen
138. Chapter one hundred and sixteen
139. Chapter one hundred and seventeen
140. Chapter one hundred and eighteen
141. Chapter one hundred and nineteen
142. Chapter one hundred and twenty
143. Epilogue
144. Curator’s Note
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