Erick
The voice that broke through my thoughts was soft, and somewhat familiar yet it startled me as if thunder had cracked right above my head.
“Do you need something?”
I turned around swiftly, my heart lurching. For a moment, I almost thought… Sophia.
But it wasn’t her.
It was a woman tall, slender, and dressed in a pale blue dress that rippled in the wind like water.
Her hair was dark and coiled loosely around her shoulders, her face half-shadowed by the afternoon light.
She stood only a few steps away from me, her expression unreadable, her tone calm but detached.
Why does she seem so familiar? Or maybe it was just the exhaustion in my mind projecting familiar people onto strangers again.
I cleared my throat, straightening. “Yes,” I said, my voice steadier than I felt. “I’m
