THE VEILED BRIDE
She tilts her head slowly and then plays again one final sequence of notes.
But this time the veil shifts just slightly, enough, and I see white hair and soft features I can't fully place but feel like I've seen in fragments before, not in real life and not anywhere I can explain, just in places I can't reach when I wake up. My heart stops because I know somehow that I'm finally seeing something real.
"Wait," I say again, and this time my voice breaks through fully. The piano stops instantly. She looks at me and I see it, not fear and not surprise but something closer to recognition, like she knows I've finally reached the edge of something I was never supposed to touch.
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