The Dinner Party

The Dinner Party

Six people. One table. A clock on the wall that nobody remembers starting.

The host has done this before. The guests don't know that yet. By the time the first course is cleared, someone will have said something they cannot take back. By dessert, the room will have rearranged itself — not the furniture, the people. Their positions. Their loyalties. The story they each came in telling themselves.

Nobody left the same way they arrived. That's not a warning. That's the invitation.

The Dinner Party is part of The Chianti Chronicles — fiction set inside the SYNTHESIS Universe. Full story available to Sovereign Threshold members.