HEARING: Echoes of Emotion

Ever since the silence began, the world has been wrong.
People lose whole days-forgotten, erased-
as if their emotions are being swallowed by something unseen.

Joy. Fear. Pain.
All of it... fading.

But Jiwoo hears what no one else can:

Emotions making noise.
A trembling echo when fear rises,
a sharp crack when anger shatters,
a low hum when grief tries to breathe.

And when the seventh tone awakens inside her skull,
the lights flicker-
time stutters-
and a voice whispers from the empty air:

"Hear the seventh tone."

Something is breaking.
Something is calling.
And Jiwoo is the only one who can hear it.