Season 2-Chp 29
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All through the night, the sky remained heavy, bloated with thunder, but it never broke. It hovered instead, swollen and grey, leaking low, ambient light into Elden Reach like the ceiling of an enormous cathedral. The clouds didn’t roll. They stood still. They watched. And below them, inside a room that had grown colder since their return, Jerome sat with his knees drawn up to his chest, staring at the motel floor like he could see through it.

He hadn’t spoken since the vision.

Not really.

Margareth had asked him questions. Selene had offered answers. But Jerome had only nodded or blinked or responded with small movements of his fingers, always tracing the same spiral into his palm. Again and again. It wasn’t the original spiral anymore. It had changed after the Crypt — sharpened at the edges, more intricate, almost alive.

Now he sat at the desk, the journal spread open before him, drawing.

Margareth stood nearby, watching him in silence.

“You haven’t slept,” she said.

He didn’t look
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