Beyond The Willow

Raven has always felt like she's living someone else's life.

Locked in a house that doesn't feel like home. Haunted by a car crash that took her mother. Watched by adoptive parents who tighten their grip the more she starts to question her place in the world.

But when reality begins to glitch-ceilings rippling like water, silver grass stretching endlessly beyond her dreams, a willow tree waiting at the edge of something ancient-Raven realizes this isn't just trauma.

It's memory.

Each time she falls asleep, she steps further into a world that feels more real than her own. A world of dragons and ravens, palace guards and assassin's silk. A world where a girl who looks like her once rode fire across the sky.

And the most terrifying part?

She has no recollection of ever being that girl.

As fragments of a forgotten medieval past bleed into her waking life, Raven begins to suspect the truth: this may not be a dream. It may be an alternate reality-one where she survived, where she was powerful, where she chose her own fate.

Now locked in her room and running out of time, Raven makes a decision:

If another version of her exists out there-

She's going to find her.

And this time, she won't just fall.

She'll walk beyond the fear.