The Boy with the Cloud.

Image Credits: Generated by AI using OpenAI's DALL·E model (2025). Ever met someone who unsettled you before they even spoke? A face unfamiliar, yet strangely significant. They slip into your life like a recurring dream—appearing in hallways, in fragments of conversation, in places they shouldn’t be. And though you tell yourself it’s coincidence, a small part of you wonders if something else is at play. If the universe has stitched your stories together in ways you’re only beginning to understand. His arrival wasn’t foretold in any prehistoric cave painting, nor was it heralded by some mind-boggling miracle. Maybe it was a clerical error from the heavens. Or a prank from the underworld. The gods, amused, watching one mortal unravel. That’s how Tora felt: like the punchline to a cosmic joke. He wasn’t Atlas Corrigan, he wasn’t a Greek god, and he certainly wasn’t her type. Still, girls fawned over him. That swagger, that chaos. A magnetic storm of...