Where the Dead Keep Watch

Previously

…He offered no comfort, no platitudes. Silas’s death, like the others, was a regrettable, yet ultimately predictable, consequence of the harsh realities of the time. But to Thorne, Silas’s final words were not a mere delirium of the dying. They were a confirmation. The energies were stirring. The foundation was being laid, not just in stone and mortar, but in the very essence of the land, a foundation upon which a spectral duty would soon be etched, binding the living and the dead in a covenant that would echo through centuries. Blackwood Manor was rising, and with it, the first seeds of its enduring, chilling legacy were sown.