'Each memory is meant to be treasured.'

Tess doesn't linger much on what a mysterious man has to say to her one day in her parents' hotel lobby. Love, the man says, will come with a cost: you may not kiss any man you fall in love with. It will bring harm to you. Foolishly, Tess forgets the warning for far too long...

I dreamt this story or in other words, told it to myself in a half-slumber. I tried to write it down after I woke up and touched it up again after a few hours. My story is about remembering something a mum said so one wouldn't get to close to the end of the platform. I hope it feels somehow dreamlike. Please give me constructive criticism.

A young woman who has lost everything by tripping into another world built on ambition, power, and slavery-is met with the challenge of her own power in changing the worlds future. When her way home is dangled before her by a bastard prince from a ruined family, seeking to change his world for the better with her help. She joins a rag-tag group-the future court of the first kingdom of a better world, and manages to befriend a god of death on her path to discover a way home While they all work stop a great evil threatening to destroy all worlds, including her own. -An I Paint in Crimson Book- Inspired by The Bone Carver in ACOMAF *not beta-read*