Elara’s POV

There is a particular loneliness that comes from being right too early.

It is not the loneliness of isolation, exactly. People will still speak to you. Invite you to rooms. Quote you selectively. What disappears is resonance. The sense that your words are landing in a shared temporal frame. You begin speaking into a future that has not yet learned how to listen.

My mother lived there for years.

I had visited that future briefly. Then I left.

What surprised me was how quickly time re