Chapter 458: The Overbearing Tomb

As All Souls' Day approached, the weather shifted abruptly. Though no rain fell, the sky hung heavy and bruised, ready to burst, but not a single drop came. Jimmy brought Sophie and Lyra back to the old house for the night, so they could reach the cemetery early the next morning. The rooms overflowed with paper effigies to be burned as offerings for the dead, along with all sorts of foods specially bought for the memorial, a jumble strewn everywhere. Lyra, delighted by the intricate paper sculptures,...