xannywhispers
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Billie never meant to raise her daughter alone.
But after years of silence, heartbreak,
and survival, she's learned to live with the shadows until her daughter starts seeing them too.
At first, Billie thinks it's imagination.
Children talk to shadows.
Children see things.
But her daughter isn't just seeing monsters.
She's bonding with them.
And they're giving her powers small things at first. A voice in the dark.
A way to make pain disappear. A whisper that turns into fire.
Some of these creatures protect her.
Others watch.
And one of them is waiting.
As the boundary between real and unreal begins to break,
Billie must protect her daughter from a world no one else believes exists.
But how do you fight monsters... when some of them live inside you?
ilomilo is a haunting, tender story about a mother's love, a child's strange gift, and the invisible things that follow us home.