Letters from the future
And at the bottom of the page, written in faint pencil — like someone had added it later:
Don’t forget who you are.
She stared at the words until they blurred.
The train whistle echoed again in the distance, long and low, like a warning.
Ava pushed herself to her feet, dizzy. The night pressed close, humming faintly, like static under her skin.
The noise between worlds — she could feel it now, the edges of reality thinning, fraying.
She looked toward the horizon, where the first streaks of dawn cut through the dark.
Three days.