ALTERNATIVE TITLE: "i don't care," reid says, caringly, as he cares deeply.

In the new age, Piper Williams will go to great lengths to become Queen.

Cigarettes, lilac skies and poetry at 3am: sixteen-year-old Pietro ''Pit'' Rossi knows the adrenaline of feeling empty and infinite at the same time. With the reputation of a goofy idiot who doesn't care about anything at all, getting held back at school doesn't seem like a problem. But it is. Because Pit cares about everything, and he always cares too much. [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

Francis. Ryan. Fryan. The most self indulgent thing ever. (No actual adventures - only a bunch of college fools with communication problems.)

Boy meets magic. Boy meets death.