Through the Serena Lens
For six months, Serena had a key to Jenny's house. Six months of midnight visits, watching Sammy sleep, singing lullabies in the dark. Nial caught her. Confronted her. Then vanished. Now Jenny sits in the wreckage of her sanctuary, forcing herself to rewind through the last week—the days everything fell apart. She thought she was losing her mind. She thought Nial was having an affair. But what if it was all manufactured? What if every strange moment was Serena?
QUEST BRIEFING:
The bathroom tiles are cold against Jenny's spine. Serena's footsteps have finally faded down the driveway, but the revelation hasn't—it echoes through every corner of her mind, rewriting months of memory.
For six months, Serena had a key. Six months of entering this house, watching Sammy sleep, singing to him in the dark. And Nial—Nial had caught her. Confronted her. Then vanished.
Now, sitting in the wreckage of her sanctuary, Jenny forces herself to rewind. Not months—her exhausted mind can't reach that far back. But days. The last week. The days when everything started falling apart.
The secretive phone call before dawn. The unfamiliar car watching the house. Sammy's comment about shadows being "quiet here." The list in Nial's office with Dr. Carmichael's name crossed out. The watching figure in the trees. The text from Nial's phone that felt wrong. The photograph of Nial with another woman. Serena's "forgotten" script. The planted underwear. Serena's message claiming she'd witnessed the affair.
She thought she was losing her mind. She thought Nial was having an affair. She thought shadows moved with malicious intent.
But what if none of that was real? What if every strange moment, every inexplicable event, every piece of manufactured evidence... what if it was all her?
Some things will make terrible sense. Others will raise new questions. And a few might reveal that Serena wasn't the only monster lurking in the margins.
