Sep 13, 2026 · 20 min · 6 segments
A complete standalone story from the world of Tongue of the Serpent. No previous knowledge of the series is required. In New Orleans in 1897, Clara Beaumont walks into an antique shop after dark and…
You stood outside for almost a minute.
Clara turned toward the counter.
The man behind it appeared no older than twenty-eight, with neatly trimmed ginger hair and beard, and a handsome face made unsettling by the patience in his eyes.
Monsieur Devereaux? Lucien.
Monsieur Devereaux will do.
One copper eyebrow lifted.
As you wish.
Clara glanced again at the painted sign.
My grandmother knew this shop.
I should hope so.
We were open.
She said there was a Lucien Devereaux here when she was a girl.
There was.
Your father? Lucien smiled faintly.
If that explanation comforts you.
It did not.
Clara tightened her grip on her reticule.
I need my husband killed.
His expression barely shifted.
That is considerably more interesting.
Beaumont.
Madame Beaumont.
People bring me cursed jewelry, stolen reliquaries, dead men's watches, and objects they insist are possessed.
Murder is hardly the strangest proposition I've heard this year.
You stood outside for almost a minute.
Clara turned toward the counter.
The man behind it appeared no older than twenty-eight, with neatly trimmed ginger hair and beard, and a handsome face made unsettling by the patience in his eyes.
Monsieur Devereaux? Lucien.
Monsieur Devereaux will do.
One copper eyebrow lifted.
As you wish.
Clara glanced again at the painted sign.
My grandmother knew this shop.
I should hope so.
We were open.
She said there was a Lucien Devereaux here when she was a girl.
There was.
Your father? Lucien smiled faintly.
If that explanation comforts you.
It did not.
Clara tightened her grip on her reticule.
I need my husband killed.
His expression barely shifted.
That is considerably more interesting.
Beaumont.
Madame Beaumont.
People bring me cursed jewelry, stolen reliquaries, dead men's watches, and objects they insist are possessed.
Murder is hardly the strangest proposition I've heard this year.
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