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"How fitting that a storyteller should find a library, or a rooftop woven with words."
A land plagued by roses. A city of red and gold. The question of how a secret becomes a story or if it was a simple fable all along. For Lena Manfred, moving to a new home began as a simple choice; an appropriate place for a fairy-tale to begin (but one that naturally changed its course, as all stories do).
In the city of Ineffable, none of the books are so black and white, and instead there are libraries filled with contradictions much like the people that inhabit their spaces. Tightly bound together like the printed pages, everyone in the city has sometimes found themselves lost in the clouds. But when the weather turns less magical and those who can't stand to watch it burn have fled, Lena's story writes itself into survival. A story about the dangers of the warped mind, and unsticking the line between logic and imagination.
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