https://www.wattpad.com/story/408186050?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details_button&wp_uname=February313
Sunset was slowly receding from the edge of the desert, leaving behind a gray hue like the weariness that settled in her heart. She stood alone at the edge of the dirt road, waiting for no one… but she couldn't bring herself to leave. The wind passed around her as if it knew her name, brushing against her cloak and then moving on, like everyone who had passed through her life and left an unseen trace. For years, she had felt a phantom walking beside her; not a person, but a feeling… a feeling of loss that didn't shout, but whispered. Every time she tried to be strong, that phantom returned to remind her of what she had lost without knowing how she had lost it in the first place. The village behind her was silent, the roads ahead were all the same, as if the world had conspired to leave her suspended between a past that would never return and a future whose contours remained unclear. And yet… she walked. She walked because standing still had become more painful than being lost.
