More than a week had passed since Caroline’s encounter on the street and she had done what she always did with things she couldn’t explain she buried them deep. Because thinking about them didn’t change anything, it only made her uneasy. So she stopped thinking about it or at least… she tried to. Life moved on as it always did. Her routine returned. Work resumed its usual rhythm. Emails, deadlines, calls she didn’t answer on time, and tasks that kept her too busy to dwell on anything strange and then the new assignment came. A house, an estate, to be precise. It was old and vacant, forgotten for decades. The previous owner had passed away years ago, and since then, the property had been left untouched—sealed away in silence like a memory no one wanted to revisit. But now, it had a n

