He Thought He Knew His Father’s Secrets, Until He Found Something Inside That Changed Everything
There it stood, perched on the crest of the town’s edge, the manor that had held sway over the townsfolk’s imagination for generations. Its silhouette loomed against the sunset, casting an intricate pattern of shadows that danced and played on the barren lands around it. It was an old manor house, its timeworn stones whispering tales of a bygone era. Ivy crawled over its brick facade, a green tapestry woven through years of abandon, and the once vibrant garden lay overtaken by nature’s reclaim.
This spectral mansion belonged to a gentleman by the name of Richard, a man known more for his disappearance than his life. Like the manor itself, Richard was cloaked in layers of rumors, the most persistent of which was his unexpected vanishing with a significant treasure. Despite many a curious wanderer and fortune seeker, the truth behind the stories had been as elusive as the morning fog that often blanketed the manor.