They say the ear is the window to the soul. But what happens when that window slams shut? When the vibrant, bustling world fades to monochrome, muted and isolating?
Aria Eleanor Vanoppen knows all too well. She once held the world in her hand, each note, each harmony, each tremor a part of her very being. She was the violin, and the world, her orchestra.
Then, one night, amidst the roar of applause and cheering, the miracle vanished. Silence. Utter, consuming silence.
The world kept spinning, the lights still shone, lips still moved, but Aria heard nothing. She was trapped inside a gilded cage of silence, a prisoner in the very world she once adored.
At first, she dismissed it as a bad dream, a cruel trick of stress and exhaustion. But the nightmare lingered, hardening into a cold, eternal silence.
Yet, the silence wouldn't last. Soon, Aria realized that other, more sinister voices were whispering behind the world's quiet facade: voices of conspiracy, betrayal, and murder.
Each victim, a musician. Each death, a melody cut short. And at every crime scene, an ancient musical symbol, a coded message from the past.
Aria knew she had to unravel this mystery, even without the ears to hear it. Because she alone understood the language of silence.
But the deeper she dug, the clearer it became: her hearing loss wasn't some random tragedy. It was a piece of a much grander, far more deadly design, a symphony of malice orchestrated across centuries.
And she, Aria Eleanor Vanoppen, was its conductor. Or perhaps, its next victim.
Prepare to enter a world where music is a weapon, silence is a secret tongue, and the truth lies buried beneath a dirge of death. Because a new symphony is about to begin... and this time, no one will hear the screams.