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Degrey laughed—a wet, gasping sound. “You think I haven’t tried? Every day for four years, I’ve raised this hand and spoken the command. ‘Let the door be shut.’ It doesn’t work. Because the curse isn’t broken by light alone.”

A murmur of horror. Degrey—if he could still be called that—dwelt in the ruins of the Needle, a creature of rain and regret. No one had ventured there in three years. The last who tried returned without a tongue. rain+degrey+curse+of+dullkight+part+1

The townsfolk drew back in terror. Only one person stepped forward—the eldest among them, a blind woman named , whose eyes had been the first to lose their color. Degrey laughed—a wet, gasping sound

The rain intensified. The circling Dullknights stopped and turned their hollow faces toward the party. ‘Let the door be shut

Prologue: A Name Erased from Maps In the far reaches the Kingdom of Thornwell, where cartographers fear to tread and merchants reroute their caravans by a hundred leagues, there lies a valley that no map has accurately named for three centuries. Some call it the Grey Basin. Others whisper the old name— Dullkight —a place where color, hope, and time itself decay like old parchment. But the locals, the few who remain, know it by a darker title: The Curse of Dullkight .

The Rain-walker stepped forward. “I have the sun-drop. One command from your hand, and the breach seals.”

The Rain-walker shook her head. “I’m here to meet . I need his left hand.”