By the time they reached home, night had settled in — calm, clean, and still damp from the day's rain. The house lights glowed warmly through the windows, a fragile shelter against the dark beyond.
Dinner was waiting. Rosey had laid the table while Sophie and Vale argued about whose fault it was that the rice had slightly burned. Miller sat at the head, scrolling through the news on his tablet, chuckling occasionally.
Ezra sat beside Mellody, who was listening politely to Rosey's small talk about honeymoon destinations. The meal smelled of ginger and coriander, the air light with laughter. For a while, it almost felt like any other evening.
Almost.
Ezra's mind kept circling back to that one name: Npxie.
It echoed softly in his skull, like a bell rung far away.
He waited until the conversation lulled, then looked up at his mother."Mom," he said, tone casual but eyes sharp, "did Grandpa — your father — ever mention a place called Npxie?"
The clatter of utensils quieted for a second. Rosey looked at him, surprised. "My father?"
"Yeah," Ezra nodded. "He was an archaeologist, right? The jeweler said the diamond came from there — something about an old excavation site, east region, called Npxie. Supposedly tied to myths about 'Gods of Fire.'"
Rosey leaned back slowly, her brow furrowing as she searched her memory. "Hmm… that name does sound familiar."
"Familiar how?"
"I remember he mentioned it once or twice when I was younger," she said thoughtfully. "He was part of a survey team that mapped ruined settlements across the eastern valleys. He said Npxie was different — greener than most dig sites, almost unnaturally alive."
Ezra tilted his head. "Alive?"
"Yes," she said. "It wasn't desert ruins like the others. It was a valley full of trees and vines, ancient ones, but the wildlife there was… unsettling. Venomous insects the size of your hand, snakes that glowed faintly at night, and strange sounds echoing from the canyons after sunset."
Sophie wrinkled her nose. "Sounds like a nightmare."
Rosey smiled faintly. "He used to say Npxie was a place where life overgrew death — like the earth was trying to hide something beneath all that green."
Ezra frowned, the words sinking into him. "Did he ever say what they found there?"
"Not really," she said, shaking her head. "He came back early from that trip — the only expedition he didn't complete. Said the ground there was too unstable, that the team lost their instruments to the swamp gases. He never went back."
Miller looked up from his tablet. "Old stories, son. That area's sealed off now — probably nothing but jungle and mosquitoes."
Ezra nodded slowly, forcing a small smile. "Yeah. Probably."
But the thought stuck like splinters.
A place too green to die.A land that grew over ruins, burying them alive.And a stone — the Silent Star — pulled out from beneath its ash.
Dinner continued — laughter, light arguments, the clink of plates — but Ezra's mind had already slipped elsewhere.
When the table was cleared and the house grew quiet, he sat for a long time by the window, the night wind pressing faintly against the glass.
Far beyond the horizon, the east slept under unseen rain.And somewhere in that darkness, he felt certain the earth was still breathing —waiting for something to wake.
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