Kyrie McCauley

All the Dead Lie Down

If you are looking for something to be afraid of, you'll find it.

Lovelace House was a sliver of a splinter caught under her nail, and despite her unease, and no matter how it hurt, she kept pressing, letting it dig itself deeper.

"All women have a goth phase, Marin. We all need to mourn. Some of us just choose to show it on the outside."

I would read a book titled Requiem for the Living.

It was just there– at the edge of her vision. It was just there, at the end of her dreams, in that final moment before she woke. But when she took her daughter's small hand in her own and led her through the moss-covered gravestones, the child's eyes shone bright and curious, and she ran from the safety of her mother's grasp, content among the ghosts of her ancestors.

"And I don't know about you, but I'd rather spend my time caring for the living than fearing the dead."

This is not romantic. Do not ever do this to a performing musician or you risk a heart attack. I'm dead serious.

But Marin reached anyway, like she couldn't help it, and tucked Evie's hair behind her ear, knocking her hair pin loose so it clattered against the keys before falling to the soft carpet below.

Maybe it was the dark magic in Evie's hands, bringing Marin fully back to life. Marin, who had felt grief like it was woven into her and fear ever present in her mind, dictating her every waking thought and choice. The world "what if" had been her constant companion and constant threat to her peace.

All of that dissipated with Evie's touch.

"I can't handle anymore skeletons in the closet."

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