rawan nabil

The Echoes of Venice. AI-Generated.

The city of Venice was a beautiful, watery labyrinth, a place of silent canals and echoing alleyways, but for Sofia, it felt like a gilded cage. She had come here after her mother’s sudden death, a tragic accident in the city they had once called home. The inheritance had brought her to this ancient apartment overlooking the Grand Canal, a place where the light danced on the water and the sounds of life—gondoliers' songs, the chatter of tourists—seemed to mock the stillness in her heart. She spent her days cloistered in the small rooms, the velvet curtains drawn, the city a distant, beautiful dream she couldn't reach.