Chapter 57 Shadows Closing In

• The city pulsed with life around them car horns blaring in the distance, muffled conversations drifting out from street cafés, the occasional bark of a dog. But none of it reached Rose. She clutched her coat tighter around herself as she and Evelyn walked side by side along the crowded sidewalk.
• The temperature had dropped, and a breeze swept through the street, cutting beneath her layers and prickling her skin. Still, it wasn’t just the cold that made her shiver.
• Something felt off.