Chapter 5
The Postmark
Klarina examines the postcard more closely and discovers a faint return address in Elena's handwriting: a studio on Lighthouse Lane. She returns to Palanga, finds the studio now abandoned but meets an elderly artist who knew Elena. He gives her Elena's final journal, revealing that her mother had been searching for a way to return to Klarina. The chapter ends with Klarina reading the last entry, dated just before Elena's disappearance.
Klarina sat at her desk, the postcard glowing under the lamplight. The message on the front was simple—a painting of the lighthouse at sunset, the same one she had seen in the locket. But the back held the mystery. The faint pencil address read "16 Lighthouse Lane, Palanga," but that was the guesthouse. She had stayed there. Darius had said nothing about a return address.
She turned the postcard over again, running her fingers over the worn edges. The stamp was from a country she didn't recognize—a small, blue rectangle with a foreign script. She squinted at the postmark. The date was smudged, but she could make out "2003." A year before the lighthouse inscription.
Her phone buzzed again. The same unknown number: "Look closer. The return address is in the corner."
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