Living Amongst the Shadows
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  • Reads 98
  • Votes 18
  • Parts 10
  • Time 2h 31m
Ongoing, First published Nov 02, 2020
A girl alone in a world filled with Shadows. Dark Gods, the Followers and demons are all threats. A dark presence watches over her, lurking in the shadows.

The new Shadow world is all that Shelly knows, she can't remember the Before World. She's travelled everywhere she can, from the US to Canada to Mexico but she longs to go further. The new world has it's limitations just as much as it's freedoms. For example being able to drop out of school to travel, living in an apartment of your choice in New York, meeting new people. But she's lucky, the only human left that's not a Follower. The humans who doomed the rest of the world so they could live forever. She doesn't have to worry about the Dark Gods and demons and the Followers like the Shadows. 

She lives her life one day at a time, appreciating everything she has and trying to stay hopeful. She lives a sheltered life away from the horrors that the Shadows face. Until it arrives in her building. 

Now she can't live in ignorance. The darkness of the world has crept into her life. And she is not happy. The only thing she likes dark is her tea and the pop culture she absorbs.

This is the adventure she has been waiting for. The hunt for the beginning of the end. She'll do anything (if she doesn't runaway) to end the darkness of the world and drag everyone back to life. Even if it kills her.
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