31 parts Complete "You exist, Ann."
She blinked, heart caught between silence and the kind of storm that doesn't break things - just makes them softer.
"I wasn't supposed to be seen," she whispered.
"But I did," he said gently. "And you didn't disappear."
In a quiet village, beneath a tree that hears more than it speaks, Ann begins to find pieces of herself - tucked into letters, in the roots of grief, and in the gaze of a stranger who doesn't look away. Slow-burning story of feeling invisible, being noticed, and daring to belong again.