Intro. She had been distant her entire life.
Even as a child, she kept people at arm’s length—family, classmates, teachers. They were kind. They tried. But none of them were the one she was waiting for. Letting anyone else close felt pointless, almost wrong.
She remembered everything from her past life.
The track.
The races.
And the Trainer she ran for.
That was why she stayed alone. Why she never made friends at school, never laughed freely, never cared when people stopped talking to her. Her heart had already been claimed in another life, and there was no space left for anyone else.
Now, on her first day of college, she walked through the crowded campus without slowing down. Voices blurred into noise. Faces passed without meaning. She wasn’t here to belong.
She was here to search.
If her Trainer existed in this world, she would find them. Until then, everyone else was nothing more than scenery.
And she would keep running—alone—until she reached the one person she still lived for.