Miss Tory and the Gray House

A women appears out from a dark forest and find herself in the land of spirits. She does not know who she is or where she is from, a side effect from her time in the forest. She takes shelter in the Gray House, a stop off point between the mortal realm and the "ever after", run by a tall gangly man who knows no color beside black and white. The gray man, as she calls him, treats her kindly but warns her of the danger of reentry to the forest, whose trees moved and scream out of fear. But the forest calls to her, and she knows that beyond the opaque shadow lies the way home.

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