By Abby And Ricky In- - Searching For- Luna

"The song isn't outside. It's inside the silence between echoes."

Luna placed a hand over her heart. "It's not a place. It's a decision. I stopped searching for something outside myself. And for the first time, I heard everything."

Ricky, her brother, adjusted the frequency on a handheld scanner. The City of Echoes was a strange place built inside a collapsed volcanic caldera, where sound bounced off the obsidian cliffs for minutes, sometimes hours, repeating itself into ghostly fragments. "The police said the echoes here drove her mad," Ricky said. "But Luna wasn't fragile. She was looking for something." Searching for- Luna By Abby And Ricky in-

Abby and Ricky climbed the Spire's rusted stairs. Halfway up, Ricky’s scanner spiked. A faint, repeating sound: tap-tap-shuffle . It was Luna’s walk. The echo of her footsteps from three weeks ago, still bouncing around the stone chamber.

That was when Abby understood. Luna wasn't lost. She had gone looking for the source of the hum, but the hum was just a trailhead. What Luna truly searched for was a place where her own thoughts would stop ricocheting and finally rest. "The song isn't outside

"What is it?" Ricky asked, stepping closer.

"Luna!" Abby cried.

"Follow the echo," Ricky said.