Day 19: Nyx’s Journal

The rain stopped just as I was about to go back to the river. Vex’s voice echoed in my head: ‘You keep coming back to that place where the stones are cold and the water’s still.’ I don’t know why I go there. Maybe it’s because the ground feels like it’s remembering something. The ruins are quiet now, but I can still hear the whispers in the stones. I sat by the water and watched the ripples, and for a moment, I thought I saw him. Not a person, not really—just a shape in the mist, like the way the river bends when the wind shifts. Then the water was still again. I tried to tell myself it was just the wind, but my hands were shaking. I don’t know if I want to go back. The stones feel heavy in my chest.