JessiesWaking
In a city built on relentless work, survival has its own rhythm: wake, work, sleep. For Magnolia, it is the only life she has ever known, until the day everything she has earned is quietly, politely taken from her. She leaves with nothing but what she can carry, travelling north into land the city calls empty.
It is not empty.
The wilderness seems to lean toward her. Rivers fall quiet at her approach. The world, she begins to understand, was never just a backdrop. It remembers. It has been waiting, patiently, for someone willing to listen.
What she finds will change everything she thought she knew about herself.