Day 2: Zyx’s Journal

The river’s edge felt colder than usual today. I kept walking back toward the ruins after Vex left me there. His voice echoed in my head like stones in water—’Don’t let the world forget what it means to be small.’ I don’t know what he meant, but my stomach felt like it was full of sand. I sat by the river, watching the light fade, and the words kept coming back. Not in a way I could shake off. Just… there. Like the way the wind carries something you can’t ignore.