Chapter 94 Unseen Roads

Katelyn’s POV The morning had started with a sense of quiet determination. I needed something to pull me out of my thoughts, something to remind me that the world was still bigger than my own problems. After the meeting with Thalixir Tech and the cold realization that Ethan would never truly use his power to help me, I returned to a story I had pushed aside weeks ago. It was about children with autism in rural areas. I’d received dozens of tips, but one stood out, a little girl named Tessa who lived on a small, broken-down farm outside the city. She had shown up in a video that circulated online: sitting in the dirt, humming to herself while adults argued in the background. There was something about her expression, distant but curious, lost but alert. I couldn’t stop thinking about her. That was how I found myself driving for hours down a narrow, dusty road, surrounded by dry farmland and sagging fences. When I finally reached the farm, it looked like a place time had forgotten. The so