Chapter 197
The Empty Spare Room
The spare room was finally ordinary.
No hidden corridor. No cameras. No clean oval in the dust. Claire stood in the center and heard only the house settling.
Ada placed a small table beneath the window.
Rowan put a book on it.
Mara left nothing.
“This room can be empty,” Claire said.
The archive accepted the first ordinary fact.
Room Fifty-Six opened behind the wall.
Inside was a single message from Lena.
Now live somewhere else.