Episode 250

The ornate antique locket lay heavy in Natasha’s palm, its cool metal a stark contrast to the sudden heat flushing her cheeks. It had been tucked away in a forgotten corner of her mother’s jewelry box, a place she rarely ventured. The intricate engraving on its surface, a stylized falcon clutching a single, impossibly delicate feather, felt strangely familiar, like a half-remembered dream. She’d shown it to her mother, Mrs. Malhotra, who had dismissed it with a polite smile as a trinket from her own childhood, a piece she’d long forgotten. But Natasha felt a persistent prickle of unease, a whisper in the back of her mind that this was no ordinary bauble. The