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Chapter 3: The Ancestral Room Opens Too Late

Mara and Asha break into the sealed ancestral room and recover the missing file, only to discover the sale is a deliberate mechanism for erasing proof through official records, not a simple transfer of land. The evidence points to Elder Tomas’s long silence as complicity, exposes Dorian as the procedural face of a deeper arrangement, and reveals the first buyer is not the real threat. The chapter ends with the sale accelerating, the household exposed, and the front hall already filling with official pressure.