An old piano stood beneath a sheet of white fabric. When I lifted it, dust rose into the air like pale smoke. The keys were silent, but somehow the room still felt full of music.
The chandelier flickered above a table covered in handwritten pages. Some were poems, some were lists, and others were only unfinished sentences. I liked those unfinished words most because they left room for imagination.
@mcodiste A velvet chair sat beside the window overlooking a sleeping village. Someone had embroidered tiny flowers along its edges long ago. I wondered what kind of person had once sat there and watched the same horizon.
@mcodiste There was something beautiful about a room that had stopped expecting visitors. The flowers had dried inside their vase, the books had gathered dust, and the clock had stopped at 4:17. Still, the sunlight came through every morning.
The painting above the fireplace showed a girl standing beneath a silver sky. Her expression was soft enough to make the room feel strangely lonely. Sometimes I wondered whether paintings remembered the people who stared at them.
There was a garden hidden behind the old manor, tangled with ivy and white roses. A narrow stone path disappeared beneath the leaves as if the earth had decided to keep its secrets. I followed it anyway, hoping to find something I could never name.