Here I remain somewhat existing within the essence of this work, and perhaps odd souls will pick it up and take away some form of me. Forever eternal, me and you, reader. ... Everybody needs a somebody. But for the nobodies out there, this is for you. ... - 2021- lacunatoska DISCLAIMER : I do not own any of the images in this book. All the credit goes to the original owners.

Seven Kingdoms. Eight villages. One war. A thousand years ago. * * * Welcome to Lyriel. A universe containing eight villages; Charlotte, Jane, Madeleine, Aeris, Kane, Kalliope, Marylynn, & Noon, as well as seven Kingdoms. A thousand years ago, a war broke out, destroying the eighth village, yet people still come from it. For what? Well, for The Game. Fifteen year-old Kor has one wish: not to get taken on the Gloom, something which one any stupider could call a holiday. An event, maybe, at the most. Each year, a girl of the age of fifteen would be taken. To where? No one knows. Maybe she'll find out this year. Maybe she'll uncover legends and history long forgotten. Maybe she'll save the world.

//If you're reading this anywhere that is not w a t t p a d, you're reading a work stolen from me and posted elsewhere.// There is one rule the entire world follows after the Great Nature Apocalypse and that is that every person needs to wear a Paper Bag over their heads. This is to ensure the polluted air that is found to turn humans into frogs once the air hits their faces is prevented, and the material used to make paper bags is the only thing stopping that effect. But one man, Haru, always thought that that rule is stupid and had no basis, only a tale of caution told from one generation to the next. Deciding to prove that was the case, he walks out into the outside world out of the comfort of the underground bunker and took off his Paper Bag. What he finds out through this elicits a strange journey with his three other close friends (and a nuisance) in finding the origin of this 'fact', specifically, who started this entire rule. [Cover made entirely from CANVA]