When Time Ran Out

Previously

…The note suddenly felt heavier in his pocket, the cryptic words no longer a game, but a potential death sentence. He looked around the opulent dining room, the hushed conversations, the clinking of silverware, the polite smiles. It all seemed like a thin veneer, a carefully constructed facade hiding a darker reality. He was caught in a web, and he suspected that Eleanor Vance and Silas Croft were two of its most significant threads, woven into a pattern he was only just beginning to perceive. The shadows of influence were lengthening, and Arthur knew, with a chilling certainty, that he was walking directly into them.