Symphony of Silence: A Boy's Journey in 900 Words
In a quiet village nestled between rolling hills and whispering pines, there lived a boy named Eli. When Eli was born, the village elders gathered at his cradle, their faces etched with unease. A peculiar enchantment had settled over him: he would speak only 900 words in his entire lifetime. Once those words were spent, his voice would vanish forever. The elders whispered of an ancient tale—a bard who’d angered a forest spirit, cursed to lose his voice after squandering his words on lies. But Eli’s parents, farmers with calloused hands and tender hearts, refused to call it a curse. “It’s a riddle,” his father said, “and riddles have answers.”
