Chapter 35
Vivienne
I used to think silence was a kindness. Now I know it can rot you from the inside out.
I haven’t slept since the dream. Not really. Every time I close my eyes, I see walls that don’t exist—charcoal-slick, pulsing. Like lungs, breathing in things I shouldn’t remember.
I keep hearing t...
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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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