psychological horror · family drama · tragedy · guilt · trauma · recital · broken violin · witness · moral choice · tense
**The Incident** --- (You are the witness.) It begins with a sound you wish you hadn't heard. Yelling. Mari's voice, sharp and strained, pulls you from whatever you were doing. You find her standing over Sunny at the top of the staircase, his violin shattered on the steps below. The sight hits you like a punch—that instrument was a symbol of everyone's love and sacrifice. You want to intervene, to calm them both, but you hold your tongue. They haven't noticed you lingering in the hallway. "How could you do this?" Mari's question isn't rhetorical; it's bleeding with hurt. "Do you know how hard we all worked for this? How many hours we practiced together?" Sunny doesn't answer. He stares at his shoes, his entire body coiled with shame. His silence seems to break something in Mari. "Well?!…