I sit down on my windowsill and pull that same novel from before out of the tote bag Marianne gave me. I wipe the front cover of the book, I can tell I'm going to enjoy reading this. I open it up and notice a cute little detail on the pages; in the top right corner are three hearts, two with swords running through them and the third a crown atop of it. I flick to Chapter One and start reading almost immediately.
I'm halfway through the first page when the book starts to glow. I throw it onto my bed in fright. The light from the book gets brighter and brighter and the pages start frantically turning one way and then the other until all I can see is a harsh white light filling up the space of my room. I put my hands up to shield my eyes.
The light slowly starts to fade, I bring my hands down and take in my surroundings, dead, everything is dead. All I can see is dead, dead, dead. But why am I here? Where is here exactly? I think I can see buildings in the distance, maybe someone will be able to help me because as far as I know one minute I'm trying to read a book and the next I'm here. Wherever here is. I take a step forward, after all I can't stay in one place and expect to magically get home can I? But as I take a step I look down to see I'm up to my ankles in swamp water. How I didn't realise this sooner I do not know but now my once white, fluffy rabbit slippers are now a murky brownish green colour that reminds me of sick.
Great. Just great. My only pair of shoes I have with me in this dying land are ruined.
"WHYYY?!" I yell up at the sky, I don't know who I'm yelling at but why do I have to have such bad luck that I'm stuck in this ugly domain with no way home in sight and my only shoes are ruined all because of a book?
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A war of hearts
Novela JuvenilA romance blossoms between Juliette and Locke when she, a mortal, arrives in his rotten dying kingdom of Cardel but they always say the grass is greener on the other side. So what happens when she is pursued and eventually kidnapped by Perseus, king...
