Chapter 184
The first syllables of the piano echoed softly, pulling me back to a time long past.
As my fingers traced the familiar keys, memories washed over me, vivid and haunting.
I had been ostracized by my foster parents as a child, and my only refuge was a broken piano stowed away in the dusty attic.
It was my escape, the one thing that could alleviate my loneliness when no one else was there.
On my seventh birthday, I had crept to the top of the stairs, hoping for a surprise, hoping maybe this year they would remember.
read. I saw my foster parents, arms around Alice, leading her out the door to play, laughing as they left me behind. Forgotten. Unwanted.
I had crept back to the attic with tears in my eyes and sat at the piano.
It was then that I composed my first melody.
A simple, fragile tune that whispered the only birthday wish I'd receive that day.
Happy birthday to me. That small song became my secret, a balm for the wounds I carried from my so-called family.
Later, as the years went by, my foster parents would drag me along on visits to other packs, parading me in front of strangers to show their kindness
A cruel irony, really. They would never treat me with kindness themselves, but to outsiders, they wanted to appear generous.
to Silvermoon stayed
the group and stumbled upon a grand
to it, like a moth
down and started playing the melody I
I played it anywhere other
wind blew softly through the open window, carrying with it the
afternoon sun had bathed the room in golden light, and for a brief moment,
and lost, overlapped with the me of this moment, standing here at this
pressed the keys again, lost in the melody I had composed all those
I played the first riff that I noticed a
face went pale, and a look of disbelief
as if
the final notes faded into silence, I turned to face him, only to find him staring at me with a mix of shock
asked, his voice barely a whisper, but his tone was heavy, filled
had guessed right. He had heard
softly, "I wrote it when I was a child, on my birthday. No one else has ever heard it. I was
realization flickering in his eyes. He staggered back a step as if the weight of the truth was too
Aira... It was you.... All this
etched with regret,
egretted
Chapter 184
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