O JARDIM DAS ESTRELAS PERDIDAS

Previously

…He felt a stirring, a tentative curiosity that pricked at the edges of his carefully constructed isolation. He was drawn to Elara, to her quiet strength, to the mystery she embodied, and to the strange, starlike flora that pulsed with an unknown energy. He didn't know what lay ahead, but for the first time in a long time, the thought of the unknown didn't fill him with dread, but with a flicker of something akin to hope. He turned back towards his own silent cottage, the distant hum a new, unexpected melody in his solitary world.