The Shadow in the Mansion

He lived under their roof. Ate at their table. Walked past them every day. And they never saw him. Elias Kael was the third son of the powerful and prestigious Kael family. But unlike his celebrated brothers, Elias was quiet, unwanted—an afterthought. After a heated clash with Caspian, the family's prized second son, he was emotionally cast out, abandoned in everything but name. They didn’t throw him out. They simply stopped acknowledging he existed. For months, Elias became a ghost in his own home. No eye contact. No conversation. No presence. And no one cared—until the day he vanished. No note. No sign. No farewell. Just gone. Only then did they look back. Only then did they wonder what he was doing all that time. Only then did they question the strange noises, the flickering lights, the cold spots in the halls. And by then… It was far too late. Because Elias wasn’t just forgotten. He had become something else. The mansion buried him. Now the mansion remembers.