Something Took My Name

In the kingdom of Aerwyn, names are not just identity… they are everything.
To lose your name is to lose your memories, your past, and eventually—yourself.
Every year, the forest takes one name from the village, and no one dares to ask where it goes. Because those who ask… are never seen again.
On the night of her seventeenth birthday, Lira hears her brother’s voice calling from the forbidden forest—the same brother who disappeared years ago after the last name-taking.
But something is wrong.
The voice knows her too well. The forest feels alive. And the rules she was taught her whole life start to break one by one.
When Lira crosses into the forest to find the truth, she discovers a terrifying secret:
The forest doesn’t just take names…
It wears them.
And now, it has started learning hers.

Never follow a voice that knows your name. Lira did. And now the forest knows her too.