I has been a while since I last participated in the wonderful world of SSS. I figured with NaNoWriMo beginning I could start back with SSS. This is from my NaNo WIP, and tentatively has the title, Secret Legacy.

Eight o’clock. It was time to open the curtains and allow the sun to wake the sleeping wretch. The antique knob creaked as she turned it slowly. She opened the door and strode noiselessly inside. As she walked toward the window, she glanced toward the bed, hoping not to see the rise and fall of expanding lungs under the duvet.

She stopped moving, all the blood running from her face as she looked at the lifeless body of the woman she wanted dead.

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