Where the Wind Whispers Names

Written in response to: "Hide something from your reader until the very end."

Drama Horror Romance

Where the Wind Whispers Names

Emi and Jacob are a newlywed couple, and they decide to go to Ohio, where Jacob has already purchased a home. But after they reach Ohio, Emi starts to hear strange sounds out of nowhere. That day, Jacob was busy in a meeting, but suddenly Emi burst into the office and cried in front of everyone that the house was haunted. Jacob becomes embarrassed and pulls her away from the office and comes back to the house. The next day, without saying anything, admit her to the hospital. The doctor suggests that for a few days, Jacob should stay with Emi. However, Jacob is also experiencing a few paranormal occurrences, but he cannot figure out what these events mean. The next morning, Jacob and Emi went to a hotel where they met their long-term friends. Viviane. After talking for hours, Vivaine noticed that there was no spark between Jacob and Emi, so she suggested they rewind their romance. So, Jacob and Emi decide to spend the night together. But as soon as they were about to come close, suddenly the doors and windows were making a sound. Emi becomes scared, and so they remain distance that night, and she decides to dig into the depths of this incident. So, the next day she talks about it to her maid. But she didn’t know anything and asked her to talk about it to Max, who was their cook. But mysteriously, someone kills their cook. One day, Emi and Jacob go to a carnival. Emi goes to a gypsy to show her Jacob; however tries to stop her, but all efforts are in vain. The gypsy, after looking at her hand, becomes terrified. And ask Jacob to come. Although at the beginning Jacob refused eventually went to the gypsy. The gypsy immediately asks him to confess the crime he had committed in his previous birth, for which a past sin haunts him in his present life, and it will not leave him unless and until he confesses the sin to Emi. But unfortunately, Jacob didn’t remember anything. So, the gypsy gave him a serum and asked him to drink a portion. Emi makes him drink the serum forcefully. After that, the couple returned home. At night, Jacob saw a nightmare. It shows that a body was buried in a graveyard, but he didn’t see the faces. He wakes up sweating. The next day, they plan to go to a shaman who can identify past, present, and future. As soon as he reaches the Sheman, he calls Jacob King Henry and Emi Queen Sophia. Both Jackob and Emi were shocked by hearing it. Then he says to sit them and he offers them some fruits. Then he starts to narrate a story, and from here we will come to know, along with Jackob and Emi that why Sheman calls Jackob King Henry and Emi Queen Sophie. A long time ago, there was a kingdom. King Henry got the crown of the king and it was time for him to get married. Searching for queens from many countries starts, and eventually, the king gets married to Queen Sophie, who was ultimately his childhood sweetheart. Everything goes well. But things start to change between the king and the queen after a few years. The spark between the king and the queen died over time. Henry starts to remain busy with his work, leaving Queen Sophie alone in the kingdom. Eventually, rumours started to spread that the king was having an extra-marital affair with lots of maids. But when one day Sophie confronts the king at the dinner table, he denies the news. But one day, a servant of King Henry disclosed a shocking revelation after King Henry married Sophie. One day, a lady visited the palace. She was very beautiful, but she was the daughter of a peasant. The servant found that lady a psycho, but he didn’t say anything due to fear of his job termination from the king. Soon, the king gets intimate with the lady. But as soon as she realised about his marriage to Sophie and felt bad for betraying her, Henry rejected the girl and asked her to leave the house. But in reality, only the lady was a psycho, so she committed suicide, but after that day she started haunting Sophie, and soon took the life of King Henry, and Sophie also took her own life. But the lady ought to haunt them in all their birth. Then Emi asks the priest how they will get relief from this oath. Then the priest told them that they have to visit a temple, a church and a mosque and confess their crime. Then there is a book where prayers are written to free a soul. They have to chant the prayer and give the clothes of both Emi and Jacob. The next day, Emi and Jacob go to do the same. But the spirit was not ready to leave them. It tries to kill them even this time by attacking them. But in the end, Emi can kill the spirit. Everything becomes fine now. However, Jacob got fractured. After a few days, he healed, and Emi and Jacob moved on from this incident. Emi and Jacob also gave their relationship a next step, and after 9 months, Emi and Jacob had two babies. One boy and one girl. Soon, the babies grow up. But shockingly, the daughter of Emi and Jacob was psycho like the lady. So, out of fear, one day Emi kills her daughter. After this day, the atmosphere becomes normal. Emi gave birth to only one child, that is the boy. The day Emi and Jacob consumed the lady also consumed her by entering the body of Emi. But after EMI kills the girl, the lady gets free forever from their life. Today, the boy of Emi and Jacob grows up, gets married, and the couple has a happy life along with their son and daughter-in-law. After finishing her story, Emi and her daughter-in-law return to the kitchen, where they had been cooking food, as their husbands were about to return from their respective worlds.

Posted Aug 01, 2025
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