Requiem Series #1 In the dim glow of neon lights and the steady hush of billiard halls, Aurora Leticia Godiñez moves through life like a carefully aimed shot-precise, contained, and never wasted on what she cannot control. She is reserved to the point of silence, finding comfort only in the geometry of billiard tables, where distance is measured, and outcomes are honest. In a world that has always asked her to endure, Aurora has learned the most dangerous skill of all: disappearing in plain sight. But everything begins to bend when a familiar presence resurfaces in her orbit. Simon Konstantin Resilla, effortlessly social, brilliant, and always surrounded yet never lost, has been part of her life longer than she ever realized. From high school hallways to college corridors, he was never absent, only unnoticed; a constant shadow at the edge of her awareness, quietly choosing her without ever demanding to be chosen back. Now, fate places them in the same room again, and silence between them begins to feel heavier than words. And like a cue ball drawn back onto the same table, their lives are forced into the same frame once more, this time not by memory, but by work they cannot avoid. He, an architect shaping structure and form; she, an interior designer giving meaning to space. Bound by a project that requires both vision and precision, they are compelled to create together, as if the past was only waiting for the right angle to move forward again.