Whispers, Widows, and Wounded Warriors

The morning of August 8th found the investigators battered and sleepless after the Nightgaunt attack at Palais Kinsky. Charlotte Thorne, too wounded to be moved, remained upstairs under sedation. Into this grim tableau arrived Katherine Ward — Mrs. Catherine Ward in public, Catherine Langley to those who needed to know — an Order of St Aelfric operative reassigned from Kraków on Lord Percival Harcourt’s direct orders. She presented her letter of introduction, established her cover as a…