Episode 04: The Ripple, The Witness

Some things break the surface. But leave no trace for anyone else.

It happened quietly.
Maybe a thought.
Maybe a word someone spoke and immediately forgot.
Maybe the way the light caught your face and made you remember something you didn’t want to.

Just a ripple.
Nothing loud.
Nothing big enough to retell.

But in you - it moved everything.

This is what the human experience is, so often:
The moments no one else marks, but you never return from.
A single shift. A subtle reorientation. A breath you didn’t even notice holding.

You still looked the same.
Still walked the same.
Still said, “I’m fine.”

But your reflection had changed.
Not because the water lied - but because something beneath it stirred.

The camera didn’t capture the before.
It didn’t catch the cause.
Only the evidence that something - someone - had been here, and changed the stillness.

You were the witness.
And the one it happened to.