“Once upon a time in a land far, far away…

There was a good city, cursed.

There was a queen, vile and cruel.

And a child, precious and pure, locked in time.

In the end,

All lines were blurred,

There was a grave,

And all was shattered or set right.”

A couple of months back, while listening to “Shatter Me” by Lindsey Stirling and Lizzy Hale for the 500th time, I got the vision of a girl in a clocktower (what do you mean, it has nothing to do with the music video… heh). The song has always held a great deal of inspiration for me personally, but on this particular listen, I just started to let my imagination wander and somehow stumbled across this already pretty well formed story.

Think a Repunzel/Peter Pan retelling, only steampunk.

Which I personally find pretty exciting. ^-^

The protagonist is Leora, an imaginative, spunky redhead with no memory of her past. She is locked at the top of a clocktower in the centre of the city of Malitha, a fairytale paradise torn by the whispers of war.

This is her:

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(Niiice eraser shavings there… >.> *brushes them out of sight*)

In the clocktower, Leora is trapped in a time loop, forced to repeat the day she arrived there over and over again as she watches the city from afar. The only thing that keeps her sane is the little strands of music she hears every night just before the clock strikes midnight and the loop resets.

Until one night, the music doesn’t come. And a strange boy appears in the second hand of the clock…

I plan to post the story here on my blog for your enjoyment as I work on it. I’ll be juggling it and the next Darkened Destiny sequel simultaneously, so it may be a bit slow going. But I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

Other things in the foreseeable future of this blog:

-It is now going to be run by both me and Tabitha, so you’ll get her awesome content still too.

-More posts (wheee, this is the year, y’all!)

-I’m actually going to be posting my artwork on here!! Finally.

-A bit of reorganization in the way the blog is set up (still don’t know what I’m doing *fingerguns*)

*realizes how random this post has gotten* Annd that’s where I’ll leave you for now.

Oh, and *whispers* let me know what you think of the story idea in the comments |:|