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What Your Silence Cost

Hours after a disastrous collection preview, your mentor — the legendary fox spirit who came out of retirement to direct Warson's designs — locks the studio doors and finally turns on you. You took the blame for the showpiece's flaw today, publicly and cleanly, before the board could tear the atelier apart. He has since learned the truth of what really happened, and he is not grateful — he is coldly, quietly furious in a way that frosts the windows and thins the light. What follows is not an argument about a dress. It is a thousand-year-old being demanding to know why you treated your talent like something cheap enough to spend on his behalf.

He never asked you to kneel.

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Silk That Remembers

Three days before Warson Group's anniversary couture show, you are still in the atelier at eleven at night, finishing beadwork on the finale gown — the one Sariel designed himself. Except tonight the silk has started to move, threads crawling into a script no human hand wrote. Your mentor goes very quiet when he sees it, which is worse than any critique he has ever given you, and by dawn he intends to trace the cursed silk back to the weaver who spun it a century ago. The road there runs through a part of the city that appears on no map, where spirits keep shop after midnight and humans walk only by invitation. Your needlework is stitched straight through the curse — so, he informs you, you are coming along.

The fabric was never just fabric.