So I started this book called Courageous and I recreated a scene of it for a competition. I figured I'd just put it on here..... Crown Princess Katelyn is visiting a nearby town to see peasants/commoners for the first time in her 16 years as princess. Alone and slightly lost, she stands in the marketplace, then this happens...

It is the year 2060 in Teraril. After World War III twenty years ago which involved many atomic bombs across the world, almost everything was destroyed. More than four billion people died from both the bombs and the war. With two sets of people believing two different things about what happened to the world, people argue and fight. After learning from her parents about what they believed to be the truth, Stella left them to live with her friend, Natalie, who believes the opposite from Stella's parents. Claiming to have been abused by her parents, Stella fights to prove the truth that Natalie believes in.

There is a girl in the coffee shop that I go to every morning. She's never not there. I've gone at night a couple times as well, and she is still there. Sometimes, kids will gather around her, and she will tell them stories of her life. She only looks to be in her mid-teens. The other day, I overheard her telling a child about her yearlong journey in an enchanted forest. Everyone knows magic is not real, right? This girl insists that every story she tells is completely true.

An unmapped town full of only people who have run away from home. A girl who has decided to escape a life of hate.