"Everything Must Be Sung Backwards"
Before there was music, there was still something listening.
A stone at the bottom of a well hums a note no one has ever heard,but every soul recognizes.
"What breaks the world," says the voice in the water,"is never the kiss itself.It's the silence before it."
Seven shadows wait around a mirror that reflects the reader's eyes.
They are not born yet.
But they are already tired.
"What is fate if no one reads it?""What is love if it's watched by everyone?""What is prophecy but a story told backwards?"
A ballerina spins.
A monkey forgets.
A crocodile cries salt that burns like fire.
"You must not interfere.""But you already have."
Somewhere in a ruined cathedral that hasn't been built yet,a voice sings one note and disappears.
Not a word.
Not a scream.
Just the possibility of song.
Beneath this passage, something has been carved in reverse:
"𝖂𝖊 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖓𝖔𝖙 𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖘.𝖂𝖊 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖒𝖊𝖒𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝖆 𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖊𝖗."
The page curls at the edges. It has already burned once before.
At the bottom, written in trembling handwriting:
"Please. If they ever find each other — look away."
A page appears.
Blank.
Then one sentence types itself across your screen:
"If we read this, the world begins again."