Chapter 3
My Beloved Brother, Raven, is Dead.
His body was laid to rest in the Chesswind Village cemetery.
The entire village gathered around Raven’s gravestone, mourning his passing.
For an entire month, I did nothing but cling to his grave and weep.
“Melody, you need to stop now. You have to keep living.”
The villagers tried to console me as I sat blankly in front of the gravestone, my eyes swollen with tears.
But words like those could never persuade me.
“The only reason I’ve been alive until now is because of Raven. But now... what am I supposed to live for?”
Whatever Raven had written in that final letter didn’t matter.
He had always been the only reason I breathed, the only purpose in my life.
‘Big sister.’
If only I could hear him call me that just once more...