Pity's Sharp Edge

In the rain-soaked borough of Thornhaven, the ghost of a disgraced banker, Elias Vane, narrates his own undoing—not by gun or poison, but by the gentle hands of those who pitied him. As he guides the reader through forged deeds, bankrupt estates, and a courtroom that wept for him, he exposes a terrifying truth: every tear shed for him was a chisel that carved away his will to live. His revenge is not against his enemies, but against the reader, whose compassion becomes the final, fatal blow.