Chapter: 2 : Shadows Within Shadows Over the next few weeks, Shabad couldn’t stop thinking about the diary. Late at night, he’d sit in his room, piecing together the fragments Amir had shared. The photograph, the cryptic notes, the unexplained nightmares—they painted a picture of a man he barely recognized. Who was Amir before he became the man Shabad knew? And what would happen if those secrets finally came to light? The answers lay in that diary—and Shabad knew he couldn’t rest until he uncovered the truth. Shabad couldn’t shake the unease that settled over him after witnessing Amir’s secretive