I WILL NOT FORGET 1
I Will Not Forget Prologue: The Silo in the Mist Summer in the valley had the color of dry corn and the pungent smell of sun-scorched earth. At ten years old, Pietro was a silent child, a timid observer who found refuge in speed. He was the quickest to run among the dense, tall rows of corn, slipping away like a light shadow. To him, his father Remo was a gentle giant—a man whose hands were perpetually stained with grease and earth, marked by toil yet imbued with an almost heroic aura. Beneath that appearance of strength and protection, however, Remo harbored a deep and restless darkness. That morning, the challenge among the village boys was simple and ruthless: whoever reached the abandoned old farmhouse first—known to all as the witch's lair—would win a shiny glass marble. Pietro ran faster than anyone else, losing himself in the green labyrinth of stalks until he found himself blocked before an imposing, rusted metal silo, half-submerged in briars and wild vegetation. ...