Whispers of the Forgotten

I didn’t ask to remember what no one else could. The visions come uninvited—flashes of a city that shouldn’t exist, voices calling my name in languages dead for centuries. Everyone thinks I’m just broken, another kid lost to trauma. But when the symbols I doodle in class start appearing on real-world buildings… I can’t deny it anymore. Something is waking up. And it knows I can see it.

Whispers of the Forgotten

I didn’t ask to remember what no one else could. The visions come uninvited—flashes of a city that shouldn’t exist, voices calling my name in languages dead for centuries. Everyone thinks I’m just broken, another kid lost to trauma. But when the symbols I doodle in class start appearing on real-world buildings… I can’t deny it anymore. Something is waking up. And it knows I can see it.

The chalk snapped in my fingers as I sketched the spiral again—unconsciously, like always. Ms. Tran’s voice droned about quadratic equations, but all I could hear was the hum beneath the floorboards. Then the lights flickered, and for a heartbeat, the classroom walls dissolved into towering obsidian arches covered in glowing script. My script.

A whisper slithered into my ear—not in English, but in something older, deeper. *"You are late, Conduit."

I gasped, knocking over my desk. Every head turned. Kai from three rows back locked eyes with me, his pupils dilated black. He mouthed two words: *"It’s happening."

The hum rose to a scream. Cracks spiderwebbed across the whiteboard, oozing silver mist. Students screamed, scrambling for the door—but it was gone, replaced by a yawning chasm leading into starless dark.

Kai lunged toward me, hand outstretched. Behind me, the teacher’s desk warped into an altar pulsing with light. A voice—my own, but not—urged: *"Jump. Remember. Lead."

Two choices tore at me: grab Kai’s hand and flee into the chaos of the school hallway… or turn back, step onto the altar, and finally see what I was born to remember.