Red Inside the Walls. Content Warning.
Mara had not meant to stay the night.
When she first entered the old house, it was supposed to be just another renovation job. She was used to them by now. Rotting wallpaper, sagging floors, the smell of mildew clinging to the air. None of it bothered her. She worked alone, moving from one house to the next, patching holes, scraping paint, sanding floors. It was quiet work, the kind that let her forget everything for a while.
