"For the best reading experience, listen to the playlist 'Ink of the Unwritten.' Let the music guide you into the world yet to be written."
Eira Lune never thought her life would change because of a dusty book no one wanted to touch.
It had always been there—on the farthest shelf in the school library, almost hidden behind stacks of old history books and outdated dictionaries. No student ever glanced in that direction.
Except her.
Or rather... except Anna Lys.
Back then, they were still in high school. Eira was no one—quiet, unnoticed, more often found lost in fictional novels than in conversation with her peers.
Anna, on the other hand, was the gravitational center of the school. Deadly beautiful, brilliant, untouchable.
And perhaps because of how distant she was from everyone else, Eira could see something that others missed—
That Anna... was lonely.
One day, in the silence of the empty library, Eira noticed Anna standing frozen before that forgotten shelf. Her fingers gently brushed the cover of a book with no title, then slowly opened it as if unveiling a door to another world.
Eira, seated at the window table, watched her quietly.
From that day onward, Anna would return—always to the same corner, always reading the same book.
She never took it home.
As if the book couldn't be away from its shelf for too long.
Then, one day, Anna stopped coming.
Rumors spread quickly: Anna Lys had vanished without a trace.
No one knew where she had gone. The police came to the school, searching for clues, but found nothing.
And the book... remained exactly where it had always been.
Eira approached the book for the first time.
The moment her fingers touched the worn leather cover, a coldness crawled into her bones. The book felt… alive.
And when she opened to the first page, it was as though the world itself paused.
"If you're reading this, then my story hasn't ended."
That was the opening line.
And Eira couldn't put it down.
At the same time, her mother fell ill.
And within three months, she was gone.
Eira lost everything—her school, her best friend, her family.
But the book remained.
And for the first time in her life, she read not to pass the time...
But to survive.