– Frey Starlight's Pov –
Laughter echoed through the living room,
wrapping around me like a warm embrace from the family I loved.
Surrounded on all sides,
I felt a deep happiness—
a kind of joy I thought had been stolen from me forever… finally returned after a long and bitter journey.
Yet for some reason,
beneath that happiness,
there was something else.
An emptiness.
A strange void that whispered something important was missing.
No matter how hard I tried,
I couldn't put my finger on what it was.
I couldn't even understand why I longed for my family this intensely ..
I saw them every day, didn't I?
So why did I miss them like this?
And why did my chest feel so… hollow?
Questions with no answers.
As I sank deeper into confusion,
my mother's gentle hand pulled me back.
She looked at me with soft, worried eyes.
"Are you alright, sweetheart?"
Just hearing her voice was enough to make my heart swell.
Realizing I'd worried her for nothing,
