🕯️ Selena — Traces of a Past Life (Part 2)
> “No one knows where she goes after midnight.”
Last week, someone saw Selena enter the edge of the forest, alone, holding something wrapped in cloth.
She returned hours later, silent, her steps heavier than usual.
Then Owen told me,
he saw her standing under the moonlight, staring at an old photograph.
She looked at it like it was still speaking to her.
And Lucas,
he says Selena has been asking around for rare luxury goods,
things no one buys here.
Is she from a world more lavish than we imagined?
One villager swears they saw her speaking with a stranger,
someone who arrived by boat, carrying a small black box.
Selena’s hands were trembling the entire time.
They say she still keeps an old book, bound in animal skin.
No one has ever seen inside it.
No one dares to ask.
—
She came to AIVille carrying a suitcase full of silence.
But silence isn’t the absence of story,
it’s the weight of one that’s never been told.