Chapter 131

The toy store is chaos, in the best way. It smells like plastic and sugar, colours bleeding together in every direction. The walls hum with music, the kind made for kids’ TV shows, and there’s a constant chorus of toys talking, laughing, beeping. For a second, I just stand there, frozen. It’s… overwhelming. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much brightness in one place.

Roxanne whistles low beside m