Ayla“My mother left,” he said as I turned to leave, and I froze.“What?” I asked with a confused look, slowly turning to meet his gaze.“When I was a child, my mother left. She kept talking about something calling her beyond the wall, and one day, she walked into the garden, placed her hands on the wall, and waved goodbye before crossing over to the other side.”I listened, frozen with shock and overwhelmed with a wave of emotions as pain flashed in his eyes as he spoke.“I tried to tell everyone; I tried to show them how she did it, but the wall wouldn’t open when I touched it, and everyone thought I was just rambling. Moira called it the musings of a heartbroken child; she became the motherly figure I needed to grow up, but I can never forget the look in my mother’s eyes when she left.”“That’s why you were so hesitant to talk about it,” I said, and he nodded.“The wall, this place, Anna, my mother, everything’s connected.”“You think you’ll lose me if I go too?”“Yes,” he admitted
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