Shadow Persona Chapter One
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Last published Wed, Apr 22, 2020
Midnight is a Soldier, one of the finest warriors imbued with the powers of the Six. His sworn duty is to protect within the regime that dominates his city. The Shadow.
Midnight had told himself that he'd left the politics of his youth behind when his best friend had been killed, caught in between the last rebellion. Determined to do his duty, he hid away the forbidden sword, along with everything else from his past, below the waters that veined beneath his childhood home.
However, with rumours spreading and his apprentice setting her sights on newfound powers, loneliness clouds his mind with darkness. The threat of an impending incursion looming and his heart yearning for revenge, he unbecomingly finds the Black within him scratching its way back to the surface. The yearly Solstice drew near. The time to follow your Shadow or to die trying edged ever closer -
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