Cycle I: Coming on Strong
The Hidden Voice
The Nerve · 26 (v2.00)
THE HOUSE OF ZAN — Zan

The love inside, you take it with you.”
— Ghost

Growing older can make a beginning easier to recognize.
Interest resembles something that once became love.
A warning appears sooner.
Old fear shapes the first response.
One lesson may prevent a familiar mistake.
Another can make history feel like a prediction.
Surviving loss proves pain can remain without becoming the end of everything.
A new person inherits some of those lessons.
The useful ones.
The unfair ones.
Some protect.
Others punish a stranger for what somebody else did.
The relationship could still fail for an entirely different reason.
Experience changes what gets noticed.
It cannot reveal what comes next.
It can keep the last ending from choosing for you.