📓 Echoes Before It Happens: Zaiyen’s Diary
🗓️ Part 13: The Place I Was Warned Never to Visit
✍️ By Zaiyen
Ever since the burnt letter appeared…
my dreams changed.
They weren’t about people anymore.
Or mirrors.
Or deaths.
They were about a **place**.
A narrow lane.
Rusty gates.
Faint sounds of temple bells.
And a broken milestone with no name.
I didn’t recognize it —
until one day… I passed it on the way to town.
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It looked **exactly** like the dream.
Same rusted gate.
Same silence in the air.
The place felt wrong.
Like a memory I never had.
But my bones remembered.
And then —
I saw the milestone.
Scratched into the surface:
> “Not all paths lead forward.”
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I stood frozen.
This was it.
The place I had been warned about.
The letter said not to go back.
Not here.
But what if I already had?
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I turned to leave.
But a soft voice whispered behind me:
> “Zaiyen…”
No one was there.
Just the sound of wind and rusted metal creaking.
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I took one step back…
and suddenly felt everything collapse inside me —
like gravity folded.
I blacked out for a second.
But when I opened my eyes…
I was standing in front of the gate again.
Alone.
Except now —
there was **someone else’s bag** beside me.
And inside it…
was my diary.
A version of it I hadn’t written yet.
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Something had changed.
Timeline?
Reality?
Or had I crossed into something I wasn’t supposed to?
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And why did it feel like someone — or **something** —
wanted me to keep going?
🖋️ — Zaiyen
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