Chapter 5
The Architect's Shadow
Alexander discovers journals belonging to his ancestor, Elias Moon, the asylum's architect. The entries reveal a chilling obsession with unlocking human potential through radical, unethical means, intertwining the family's ambition with the asylum's horrors.
CHAPTER FIVE
The Architect's Shadow
The air in the west wing study was thick with the scent of aging paper and a faint, metallic tang that Alexander couldn’t quite place. Dust motes danced in the slivers of moonlight that pierced the heavy velvet curtains, illuminating stacks of forgotten books and the skeletal remains of a once-grand writing desk. It was here, amidst the quiet decay, that Alexander had been drawn, as if by an invisible thread, since his first tentative steps into the forbidden territory of the west wing. His parents, and indeed generations of Moons before them, had treated this part of the estate as if it were cursed, a place to be sealed off and ignored. But Alexander felt no fear, only a gnawing curiosity, a sense of homecoming that both thrilled and unsettled him.
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