A WOMAN IN MY DREAM

Leo is a book restorer in a gray, hurried city. He has a degree in architecture he never used, a small apartment full of old paper, and a recurring dream he has never told anyone about: a woman with honey-colored eyes, trapped behind an ornate mirror, mouthing the same silent word — "Free me."

When Leo buys an antique mirror at auction, the dream breaks into waking life. The reflection stops copying his movements. The woman appears. And on the other side of the glass lies Veridia, a kingdom where poetry becomes flowers, songs become rivers, and imagination is not an escape from reality but a force that shapes it.

Ayame, the Embodied Muse, was imprisoned centuries ago by a rival consumed by envy — the Queen of Shadows. Now that same Queen is spreading a quieter devastation across the human world: a Great Stillness in which people stop creating, stop noticing, stop caring.

Guided by the diary of Professor Anselmo, a reclusive Scholar in the hills, and a magical Brush of Realities hidden in the Forgotten Archives, Leo and Ayame must learn that art does not belong only to artists, that love does not mean possession, and that beauty survives wherever someone is still willing to see it.

A Woman in My Dream is an urban fable for readers of The Alchemist, The Little Prince, and The Night Circus — a story about mirrors, muses, and the unwritten world we choose to paint.