What Is Known of the Benefactors

The family is rarely spoken of directly.

Not because they are secretive, exactly, but because naming them alters the atmosphere of a room. Conversations slow. Lamps dim themselves. Even the Hotel seems to listen more closely when their presence is acknowledged for too long.

They are not guests.
They never were.

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