The story moved from the quiet interior of the marsh into the charged human world of Barrenwood. Isabella and Fennel found themselves drawn toward a woman in distress, her voice carrying a raw, uncanny truth. On the docks, near Le Bateau Ivre, the infamous boat of the mad, she fought to keep the city from carting its most haunted citizens away. Her fury, her clarity, and her desperation stirred something deep in the twins, pulling them further into the currents of memory, longing, and danger.

It was a chapter of thresholds, of glimpses into another order of being, and of the first tremors that the twins might not be as alone in the world as they believed.

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Chapter Three continues the drift deeper into the mystery.