They say there is a place in the forest where the flowers never fade and the owls disappear before sunrise. She goes there every evening, but no one knows why. Some say she is looking for something she lost. Others believe she is protecting a secret. She never answers when asked. She only smiles, as if the owls have told her something the rest of us were never meant to know. Last winter, someone followed her into the forest. The next morning, he came back alone. He couldn’t remember what had happened, but from that day on, he refused to look at the trees. Because every night, he saw her eyes staring back at him from the darkness.