Missed Part 1? Read it here. Larietta was a member of the large, old family, though neither she nor any other could have told you how. She grew up largely by her own devices, shuffled between convents and basement kitchens and the streets. When she blossomed into womanhood her fortunes turned, for a blacksmith’s apprentice…
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The Red Velvet Ghost
Once, long and far in the past, there was a very old and very large home that belonged to an even older and larger family. No one kept the home anymore; the last resident was only a fuzzy-edged memory, and he had been too lazy or too cowardly to leave it to any of his…
