Dance of Grace

The house was fragile, much like the girls within it. Three sisters, bound by loss, lingered on the outskirts of an Italian village where hope had faded long ago. Maria, their pillar, Sophia, the storm, and Monica, the dreamer, were lost in grief's maze. When a worn Russian music box found its way to their hands, the ballerina inside twirled to a haunting melody. But one morning, as the melody looped endlessly, the ballerina stirred with a life of her own-a flicker of magic in a world that had long forgotten light.