She is always with you

Kat walks by your side as if she knows your shadows and yet chooses to stay.

She makes no sound, but her presence lights up the corners where the sun never reaches.

Sometimes she speaks with her eyes, as if she held within them all the answers you haven’t yet dared to ask.

And when she smiles, time stands still just long enough for you to remember that you are not alone.

There is an invisible thread that has bound you together since before you knew how to name it, a shared heartbeat that pulses even in the silence.

And though the path may break, though the forest may change shape and the abyss call to you once more, she is still there, steadfast as a promise that needs no swearing.

For there are loves that do not end, they merely transform into a gentle presence, into a whispering companion, into a burning certainty: Kat is always with you.

In 1995, Swann, Kat, Nora and Autumn thought that summer would be nothing but music, recorded tapes and a diary full of lovely nonsense. But the forest had a memory. And Kat was furious. There, Kat spoke of curses, of Corey, of everything that had been done to them. They sang, they bled, and they left offerings to the void. On the night of the ritual, the four of them ventured deep into the Whispering Woods, following the light of the moths until they reached the clearing where the Abyss lay waiting: an impossible hole, dark, breathing as if it held secrets. But the Abyss was not magic. It was trauma. It was fear. It was the way their minds drew what happened that night. Corey fell there, not into a purple portal, but into an act that scarred them forever. A buried secret, a guilt none of them could name. Afterwards, everything fell apart. They promised never to see each other again. They promised to forget. But summers are not forgotten. And Kat… Kat didn’t have time. Illness took her years later, leaving only her absence, her box, her echo. In 2022, the three of them returned to the past to remember what the Abyss had taken from them: innocence, friendship, and a love that Swann never spoke aloud. The Abyss wasn’t a monster. It was the place where their childhood ended. The point where everything changed. The void that remained between them. And yet, when they remember, the four of them are together again for a moment: Swann, Nora, Autumn… and Kat (the raven), like a gentle ghost, watching from the edge of the Abyss.