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CHAPTER 11 — The Quiet Before Knowing — PART 1

Author: Mila Stone
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-18 23:20:07

POV: Aria

Kai didn’t come back when the sun rose.

I stood at the edge of the porch, arms wrapped around myself, watching the treeline shift with the morning breeze. The air felt different today—less like a warning and more like a question. As if the forest was holding its breath, waiting for what I would do next.

My head was still full of last night.

Kai is not human.

He senses things I can’t.

He belongs to a world I barely understand.

The truth sat heavy and unreal in my chest.

Behind me, the stairs creaked.

Maya shuffled out, wrapped in a blanket like a confused burrito, hair sticking out in all directions.

“Morning,” she mumbled. “Did your forest man do his creepy stare-from-the-trees thing again?”

I choked. “Something like that.”

She squinted at me. “You’re acting weird again.”

“You say that like I don’t act weird normally.”

“There’s weird,” she said, waving a hand, “and then there’s… whatever this is. Haunted? Forest-poisoned? I don’t know.”

I almost laughed. “It’s not that.”

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