Shadows of the Seven Sisters

In the remote bamboo valleys of Ziro, where fog pools like living memory and paths shift overnight, climate scientist Rina arrives expecting anomalies she can measure. Instead, she discovers a land where the bamboo remembers—and it remembers her. Her instruments record nothing unusual… but the grove speaks. At first, it is only wind. Then the whispers shape themselves into syllables. Then into her mother’s voice. What begins as an unexplained phenomenon soon becomes a psychological unravelling. The bamboo echoes lullabies, reprimands, forgotten promises, and private guilt Rina never voiced aloud. Every confession she whispers into the leaves seems to feed the grove, making it grow greener, closer, hungrier. 99shadows-of-the-seven-sisters-… Villagers warn her gently: “Bamboo remembers.” “Do not sleep with unresolved words in your head.” “The grove keeps those it chooses.” But it is already too late. Night after night, Rina follows the whispers deeper into the thickets, recording everything like a scientist desperate to remain objective. The recordings betray her—playing back fights she buried, apologies she never spoke, and memories she edited to survive. The valley arranges her past like a story it wants told. And Rina begins to feel less like a researcher… and more like the grove’s chosen storyteller