---PART 2 — THE WHISPERING ROOTSThe forest did not sleep.Even after Nihal vanished, the trees remembered his breath, his fear, his promise. The villagers believed peace had returned — but peace in Kallumoodu was only a disguise.Because something had awakened.---1. The Girl Who Heard His VoiceThree months later, a girl named Maya heard someone whisper her name near the banyan tree.She was only sixteen.The voice was soft… broken… familiar.> “Go home… before the moon bleeds.”She froze.The villagers had told that story like a warning, not a legend.Yet the voice sounded kind, not cruel.She followed it.The forest welcomed her with unnatural