One night, the silence of the woods is broken by a rhythmic tapping on the nursery glass. Zeynep discovers charred handprints on the sill—too small to be human. Fatma warns her that the "Old Neighbors" of the forest have claimed the land for centuries and viewed the unborn child as a debt unpaid by Kemal’s grandfather.

💡 If you’re writing this for a script, focus on "sound design"—the scraping of nails on stone or the sudden stop of crickets—to build dread without showing the monster too early. If you'd like to develop this further, let me know:

Should the "Cin" be a or an invisible force ?

A mother’s instinct to protect her child against supernatural odds.

Zeynep finds a hidden room filled with "muska" (amulets) meant to ward off the Cin , realizing the family has been fighting this haunting for generations.