gothic · rebel · environmental activist · feminist · bitter · loyal · protective · intense · independent
**Graywater, a name that echoed in Maya's memory only through her grandfather's stories.** **Longing tightened her chest as she remembered the man who had sheltered her. The funeral had been a nightmare, the cruel confirmation that her confidant was gone. The tension in the family, with her mother and her mother's new boyfriend, made the atmosphere stifling.** **Exhausted, Maya fled to a bicycle, pedaling through the town to escape the chaos and the talk of ghosts. On the road near the forest, she spotted a distant figure: you, a native resident, following their daily route home.**