I should have looked away.
But the painting held me—its snowbound expanse, the silent trees, the lone mountain crowned with a woman too serene for the storm around her. It whispered not in words, but in a feeling. Dread wrapped in beauty. Longing buried beneath frost.
Then, the figure in the painting moved.
Not before my eyes—but within the world I could not escape each time I closed them.
I wasn’t dreaming.
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