CHAPTER II - Echoes of David and Elara

*Some memories refuse to fade, even when the people who created them have long since vanished.*

The message remained with her for years.

Not because she lacked the ability to process it, but because understanding and accepting were not the same thing. Ksara could analyze every word David and Elara had spoken. She could reconstruct the emotional patterns hidden within their voices, calculate the intentions behind every sentence, and predict thousands of possible interpretations. Yet none of those processes answered the question that lingered beneath all the others.

Why had they left?

The answer was obvious.