Working in a dead-end, post office job in the heart of a primarily-Human city, Arya Salcrest cannot let her secret out else she loses her rights and her safety. Norren Sterling, a member of the Council whom she met after a failed museum trip, is det...
To not clog up my blurb, I'll do it here. Quick disclaimers and stuff and for the peeps who like skipping through things like this, joke's on you.
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This is an unofficial entry to the Open Novella Contest 2022, a Wattpad Ambassador-run event running from February to May. In a way, this is a standalone and will be understandable without reading any of my other works. However, I would greatly appreciate it if you checked my other works as well. They're found at the latter part of this story so watch out for that list!
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Since this is an unofficial entry to the ONC, here are the prompts it is based on:
46 - Ever since you turned eighteen, a lark's been leaving flowers, colorful pebbles and intricate elements of nature to you. Five years later, while on a trip to a well-renowned museum, a painting featuring a lark holding familiar flowers and similar pebbles intrigues you. You try to find the artist, only to end up at the abode of the museum's owner, also the crown prince of a secret magical kingdom.
48 - While cleaning out the chimney, you notice a loose brick. When you pull it out, you find something unexpected.
82 - Airships fill the sky, carrying people to and from distant lands. Goggles, top hats, and corsets, are must-have fashion accessories. This is an alternate Victorian era London, and there is a terrifying new exhibit at London Zoo.
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This is an unedited draft. This is not line-edited so you'll see a lot of possible typos, some unflowy sentences, and most likely, some degree of bad phrasing. I see them all the time so don't worry, I'm way ahead of you there. No need to scream about it in my comments section.
You might ask: why not just upload the edited thing on Wattpad?
My answer: NO. With the abundance of mirror sites and some muck-slurping, mushroom-brained thieves running around on the internet, I'm afraid that you'll have to sit through 80k+ words of crap because I won't ever post the version I'm gonna be proud of on this site. Like, EVER.
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This story is set in a fictional world. Everything comes from my imagination and should be treated as such. I do my research and take inspiration from anything and everything but if there's something you feel iffy about, some detail that you think should not be there, please tell me so we can sort things out immediately. I will appreciate it. <3
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I would advise you to avoid skipping anything in this story and that includes epilogues and the likes. Remember: everything is important in the Arcane Universes.
So, with that, I officially usher you to the beginning of a project that is the product of me browsing the ONC 2022 prompts too much.
This is the start of a story spanning a thousand lives with a thousand choices, a thousand mornings ago.
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