For the next half month, all of Napels was thrown into an endless search. No one knew where I had gone. Each time Lewis’s men returned empty-handed, the fear in him only grew stronger. Yet, he refused to give up. Stubbornly, he ordered every one of his men to keep searching. Even when hope had thinned to almost nothing, he refused to accept the reality that I had truly disappeared.Night after night, he could not sleep, and he looked a lot more worn out. Then, one night, he finally drifted into a shallow sleep, and for once, he dreamed peacefully. In the dream, he saw a familiar seaside night scene, with fireworks bursting across the sky in brilliant colors, while I stood there in a clean white dress, smiling as I ran toward him along the shore.In that moment, all his anxiety and frustrations vanished. Instinctively, Lewis reached out, desperate to pull me into his arms, but just as his fingers were about to touch mine, everything shattered. The fireworks vanished, and my figure d
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