There is no night in the Everburning City. There can never be. ***** For four hundred years the Everburning City has withstood the advance of the life-strangling fog known as the Gloam. Its walls have held back five invasions, but on the eve of the sixth, the city's inhabitants know things have changed. Golems are coming out of the mist, and the bodies of the dead are rising at the Gloam's bidding. The city's last and most desperate line of defence comes in the form of the Crafters, individuals who can channel the power of fire, though they risk their sanity each time they do. The brightest of these valiant heroes are Tabitha a'Loria and her apprentice Gerald Reath. Risking their lives, they mount their airships, determined to save the last bastion of humanity - the Everburning City. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

This life is what I made it, I messed up, It's universal couldn't help it. But this broken heart I fell is the worst. It's like having broken ribs, no one can see, but it hurts every time I breath.

After losing his family Derek has left his life in the city behind, including his job within the police force, to take on a position as a park ranger at the infamous Redstone National Park. Due to the extreme conditions of the winter and remote location, which is miles from civilization - he thinks it just the place he needs to be to escape the ghosts of his past. It’s not just the native animals living with the parks boundaries that appreciate his work, but also a century old community of forest faeries who have so far kept their existence hidden from the human world until a poaching raid goes wrong which leaves Derek stranded and fighting for his life. The faerie elders decide to intervene and they do something to help him, but will changing his fate by saving his life be seen as blessing or a curse? And just how will this have an affect on him when he meets the faerie, Amerie? ------ *My entry into Nikki's Para-nor-mance Writing Contest* Original Pairing: Derek (werebear) & Amerie (fairie) Challenge Element: Devony (seer) Final Word Count: 20,564