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Chapter 20 - The 13th Cry

Genre: Melancholy with spiritual and mysterious nuances

Phase: Baby (age 0–1)

It was a quiet night. The hospital only left a dim yellow light in the delivery hallway. A baby girl was born at exactly 1:13 a.m. She cried—loud, round, and oddly enough... she cried thirteen times before going completely silent.

The nurse looked at her watch. "The 13th Cry," she whispered, goosebumps.

The baby's mother was exhausted, but still managed to kiss her daughter's tiny forehead. "Your name is Aluna... the sound of the night."

As the days passed, baby Aluna grew up healthy. But there was something strange—every night of the full moon, she laughed in her sleep, and her bedroom warmed up for a moment, as if someone was sitting by her bedside.

One night, her mother found a scrap of paper under Aluna's pillow with writing similar to that of her deceased grandmother:

"Your cry is a call. But the one who answers is not human."

Interesting knowledge: Babies aged 0–12 months have dominant theta brain waves, similar to when adults meditate or are in an active dream phase. Some researchers call this phase the "spirit window"—where babies are most open to invisible energies and impressions.

Philosophy: Before we learn to talk, we may be better at talking to the unseen world.

Strange rumor: In ancient villages in Sumatra, it was believed that if a baby cried exactly 13 times at birth, it had "opened a gate" and someone from another world would become its invisible protector until the age of 7.

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