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Elara found it on her fourth day at Blackwood Hall, behind a wall of rotting floral wallpaper in the east wing's smallest bedroom, and from the moment her utility knife caught the edge of the tarnished silver frame, she understood why someone had tried to hide it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe was thirty-four, a restoration specialist hired by the estate's liquidators to catalog and appraise before the auctioneers descended like vultures. Blackwood Hall had belonged to Alistair Vane, a collector of improbable wealth and impeccable obscurity, who had died three months earlier at ninety-one without heirs or friends. The house breathed neglect. Dust hung in the air like suspended judgment. Every surface wore a gray skin of abandonment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hidden room was perhaps twelve feet square. No windows. The air inside was still and cold in a way that had nothing to do with the broken radiator in the hall — a deeper cold, the kind that settled in bone rather than skin. And dominating the far wall, nearly eight feet tall in its ornate silver frame, stood the mirror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts glass was immaculate. No tarnish, no foxing, no silver rot. After decades sealed behind a wall, it reflected the beam of Elara's flashlight with the clarity of polished water. She stepped closer, professional curiosity overriding the prickle at the base of her skull.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reflection showed the room behind her. But the room behind her was empty, stripped to floorboards, lit by her flashlight alone. The room in the mirror had furniture. A four-poster bed with heavy drapes. A writing desk cluttered with papers. A wingback chair upholstered in wine-colored velvet. 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