Lonely Castle in the Mirror #4

Three figures gather beneath a towering grandfather clock in this fourth volume of Mizuki Tsujimura and Tomo Taketomi's atmospheric manga adaptation: a girl in a striped sweater sits at the center with a wary, searching expression, flanked by a mysterious figure in a white wolf mask and sweeping red dress on one side, and a quieter girl clutching a book on the other. The warm, dusty palette and ornate oval framing give the composition a fairytale-tinged tension that feels both intimate and unsettling. If you've been following this series, volume four promises to deepen the castle's mysteries in all the right ways.