Royal Street CH 1
from Jewel Town Hosted by Savant Narrative
Chapter 1 New Orleans, antebellum. Royal Street, the French Quarter. The most elegant address in the most dangerous city in America — and today, something extraordinary is being delivered to the LaLaurie mansion. Madame Delphine LaLaurie is one of the most celebrated women in New Orleans society: beautiful, cultivated, impeccably connected, and mistress of a household so perfectly ordered it borders on the unnatural. She has been expecting this delivery. She has, in some sense, been expecting it for years. The mirror arrives wrapped in canvas and linen, carried by men who have learned not to look at it directly. The horse pulling the cart sweats through the French Quarter heat — not from exertion, but from fear. The men who transported it from the Providence speak of it in low voices: something that watches. Something that already knows you. Something that has been patient for a very long time.
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