Summary

On her eleventh birthday, Nadia Mitchell disappears without a trace. Her room is untouched, her phone lies on the bed, and a mysterious silver locket plays the sound of distant laughter. As detectives search for answers, Nadia's sister Alice uncovers notebooks filled with strange observations, hidden patterns, and secrets no child should have known. Every clue reveals another mystery, leading to a truth buried for years. In this gripping psychological thriller, nothing is as it seems—and every detail matters.

Genre: Mystery

Author: Blue_crystal

Status: 2mo ago

Chapters: 1

Rating: n/a

Age Rating: 16+

Prologue

I don't remember when the hunger stopped hurting.

I think that's the part nobody tells you. That there's a point, somewhere after the third day or maybe the fourth, when your stomach gives up asking. It just goes quiet. Like it forgot what it was supposed to want.

I remember warmth more than anything. The feeling of someone's arms and the way it made the rest of the world feel very far away and unimportant. I used to think that feeling would always be there when I needed it. I didn't know it was something that could run out.

I didn't understand, for a long time, what was happening to me. I kept thinking someone would come. That's the thing about being a child — you always believe, right until the very end, that someone is coming. You think the door is about to open. You think you can hear footsteps. You think: any moment now.

Any moment now.

I wasn't angry. I want someone to know that. I was never angry. I was just very tired, and then the tired became something softer — like the feeling just before sleep, when the edges of everything go warm and loose and it doesn't seem so important anymore to hold on.

I don't know how long it took.

I only know that at some point the waiting stopped.

And the strange thing — the thing I still don't understand — is that even at the very end, I wasn't afraid. I just kept thinking someone was coming.

I was so sure.

I was so sure someone was coming.