Blooming Under Night

Bea slowly ripped and tore her way to a place where she can finally find fun in confronting challenges. After ten years, trapped and forced to learn how to live in a nightmare world, she's adapted to the constant havoc. When her daily life was one chaotic threat after the other, she couldn't take every blight as apocalyptic - and eventually she battled for the lighter moments in so much dark.

Now she's back in her old peaceful world - where the sun actually rises from day to day. She decides to take the sudden change as a gift - earnest to adapt herself yet again.

But a hole has been broken in the wall between worlds. And friends old, new, and not yet made are forced to face their own struggle for survival. Bea's new task is to give them the help she never had. Compared to other efforts, this one seems easy. Until she realizes the problem isn't in coming out of a fight against monstrous wolves alive, or facing down a sudden new DINOSAUR head on with a reckless grin.

The problem is trying to fit back into a shape she's grown out of.
To not worry people with how light she takes danger.
To explain things she's already moved on from.
It's trying to relearn past friends.
To struggle understanding why everyone is bewildered by her.
To reconcile the consequences of sticking out for number one - with being kind.

Bea realizes the real problem in all of it, is learning to do more than just survive. But she also knows that a storm is around the corner. It always is. Always. That surety is dug into her very bones.

Thriving gets pretty hard when she's preparing for a disaster to hit.

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