Chapter 1.1
Scene: 1.1.6
The Novak State
1385
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When she departed, the great Novak estate was simply home—the cradle of her earliest memories, guarded beneath the gentle, watchful eyes of her parents. Its halls had once held the quiet warmth of evening lamplight and the scent of tilled earth drifting in through summer windows.
Six years passed.
The House of Novák
Three generations earlier, the Novak estate was not yet a place of silence. It lay folded into the hills like a kept secret—vineyards sloping gently toward dark woods, stone walls still pale with new mortar, the manor’s windows bright at dusk with lamplight and voices. The land was prosperous, but not ostentatious. The Novaks had never been a family that announced itself loudly. Their wealth came from patience: land tended carefully, alliances chosen sparingly, knowledge passed quietly from parent to child.
The same stones, the same location,
yet not the same place of her early years...
The Hovart Manse
1396
xxx
When she returned, the name that lingered on its gates was no longer her own. The Novak estate had been reborn as the Hovart Manse—its rooms stripped of their tender familiarity, claimed by August Hovart and his wife, Nerissa. The house stood unchanged in stone yet altered in spirit, as though it had shed its former soul and taken on another: colder, more severe, and estranged from the girl who had once called it hers.
It is said that stone remembers, though it does not forgive.
"It is not what it was"
It didn't feel like home
"Never speak your name!"
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