Brushstrokes of the unseen
Her reflection stared back in the glossy surface: flawless, unyielding, tired.
She whispered to the empty room, “Why can’t I look away?”
Across the city, Alex sat on the worn floorboards of his studio, pencil moving in restless lines across the sketchbook.
The sketches weren’t deliberate. They slipped out the way breaths did — uninvited, automatic. A profile with hair pinned back too neatly. A gaze that never softened. Hands clutching something invisible, as though holding herself together.
It was Sophia.
Not precisely. Not photographically. But her presence seeped through every line, disguised as abstraction.
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