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Abby knelt and hugged her sister, feeling the warmth of a body, not a ghost. The echoes in the well slowly faded, one by one, until only silence—and the soft sound of three people breathing—remained.

Abby and Ricky climbed the Spire's rusted stairs. Halfway up, Ricky’s scanner spiked. A faint, repeating sound: tap-tap-shuffle . It was Luna’s walk. The echo of her footsteps from three weeks ago, still bouncing around the stone chamber. Searching for- Luna By Abby And Ricky in-

They found her in the deepest chamber, the Resonance Well. She was sitting cross-legged on a natural pillar of basalt, eyes closed, smiling. Around her, the echoes of dripping water, distant thunder, and her own name—called by Abby and Ricky days earlier—wove together into a strange, haunting lullaby. Abby knelt and hugged her sister, feeling the

Luna opened her eyes. They were clear, unhaunted. "I found it," she said softly. "The end of the search." Halfway up, Ricky’s scanner spiked

Abby held the tattered sketch she’d made of her younger sister—charcoal smudged where Luna’s smile used to be. "She wouldn't just leave," Abby whispered, her voice swallowed by the damp, salty wind of the City of Echoes.

"Luna!" Abby cried.

Luna placed a hand over her heart. "It's not a place. It's a decision. I stopped searching for something outside myself. And for the first time, I heard everything."