The Forgotten Forest

His father left him at the docks with nothing but a silver chain and three words: "until you grow."

He never came back.

Ren survives the streets alone — hunger, cold, the kind of silence that teaches a child faster than any lesson ever could. Until one day, a stranger's newspaper shows him a way out: a missing boy's photo, a face close enough to his own, and a family desperate enough to believe.

He takes the name. He takes the house, the sister who hugs him like she never lost him, the brother who welcomes him home. All he has to do is remember to keep the chain hidden — and never let anyone look too closely at his eyes.

But some things can't be explained away. Not the color that used to be different. Not the warmth in a stranger's embrace that feels like something he was never meant to have. And not the silver chain his real father warned him never to use unless he had no other choice.

A story about the boy who stole a name to survive — and the family that might be the only thing standing between him and whatever he's really running from