She wasn’t supposed to be home. She wasn’t supposed to see him. But fate had other plans. It was just a bathroom door, just another casual walk to wash her hands — until she opened it. And then… he turned around. The water streamed down his body, and what she saw on his stomach didn’t just shock her — it shattered her entire understanding of reality.

It started as an ordinary day — until she heard the water running
Anna (name changed) came home early from work that day. She was tired, worn out, and all she wanted was five quiet minutes to herself. Her husband was away on a business trip, the house was supposed to be empty. Supposed to be.

The first strange thing? The sound of running water. From the shower. Her husband couldn’t be back… could he? She walked toward the bathroom, confused — and when she opened the door…

She froze.

Inside the shower stood a man. A stranger. Tall, muscular, powerful. Steam curled around his silhouette. His skin glistened under the water. He didn’t move — not at first. She stood there, paralyzed, unable to speak, unable to scream.

And then… he turned around.

The moment their eyes met, time seemed to stop
He didn’t seem alarmed. Didn’t yell. Didn’t panic. He just looked at her and calmly said:

“You were going to find out eventually.”

But she wasn’t focused on his voice.

Her eyes had locked onto something else — something etched onto his stomach. A circular symbol, faint but glowing under the water. It wasn’t a tattoo. It didn’t look drawn or inked. It looked… ancient. Like it had been burned into him. A perfect circle, a triangle inside, and in the center — a single upside-down A.

She had seen it before… in her nightmares
Anna’s breath caught in her throat.

She had seen this symbol. Not in books. Not on TV. But in her dreams. Since she was a child, she had nightmares about a man standing in water — silent, faceless, always bearing that same mark on his stomach.

She would wake up trembling, drenched in sweat, but unable to remember his face.

And now he was standing in her bathroom, real.

She tried to run. Then he spoke her full name — and more
As she backed away, heart pounding, he spoke again. This time, slowly. Precisely.

“Anna Maria Alexandrovna. Born April 4th, 1991. 3:04 AM. You were chosen long before you were born.”

She gasped. No one knew that. No one. Not even her closest friends knew her full patronymic. And no social media account ever included her birth time — that was something only her parents had recorded.

They were both dead.

Who was he? And why was he in her home?
She stammered a question, barely able to speak: “Who… are you?”

He didn’t answer. Instead, he turned toward the fogged-up mirror. And when she looked at it, her legs almost gave out.

Someone — somehow — had written a message from the inside, backwards:

“He’s here to awaken you.”

The symbol on his stomach wasn’t random. It had a name
Anna began researching obsessively. She scanned occult forums, ancient texts, anything she could get her hands on. The symbol matched only one thing: a mark associated with a figure known as “Avalei” — the Dream Watcher. A guardian spirit said to appear once every hundred years to awaken the dormant knowledge hidden within chosen people.

Anna was one of them.

The symbol on his stomach? A sign of awakening. A key. A warning.

And then… the symbol appeared on her
A week later, Anna found a strange discoloration on her own stomach. At first, she thought it was a bruise. Then a burn. But within days, it formed into the exact same symbol.

She hadn’t told anyone. But it began pulsing at night. Glowing faintly. She no longer had nightmares. Now, she had visions: cities she’d never seen, languages she’d never learned, memories that weren’t hers — but felt more real than her waking life.

He never came back. But she knows he’s still watching
Since that night, the man has not returned. But Anna knows he’s close. The symbol on her skin pulses when he’s near. She hears voices in static. Sees signs in the sky. Sometimes, when she dreams, she sees him again — standing under falling water, silently watching her.

The world thinks she’s crazy. But she’s not alone
She’s found others online — people with the same mark. People who also saw strangers appear briefly, then vanish. People who felt like they woke up from a life that had always been… slightly wrong.

Together, they’re searching. For answers. For truth. For why they were chosen.

Conclusion: If you ever see him, don’t look away
Anna’s life was turned upside down the moment she walked into that bathroom. But now, she says she wouldn’t change it for anything.

“He didn’t break my life,” she says. “He opened it.”

So if, one day, you hear the shower running and find someone inside…
Don’t scream. Don’t run. Look at his stomach.

Because if you see the mark, your life is about to change forever.