Speak, Dear Muse [ Once Upon a Time ]

Killian Jones/Detective Rogers x OFC

"One Muse, alone in the world, is a tragic fate indeed."

ON PAUSE UNTIL 2025

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Hyperion Heights. Seattle's tourism board loved to label it the city's most up and coming neighborhood. With the assistance of Victoria Belfrey, it was being changed from a little hideaway to the best place to live and work. They liked to herald her as the greatest thing to happen to Seattle since the Space Needle.

But Melody only knew one thing. Victoria Belfrey had cost her a job, and was soon to take another from her. Resigning herself to spending tearful nights on the Sound between waitressing and street performing, she grapples with the grief that fuels her epic poems and drove her to Hyperion Heights five years previous.

With the arrival of fellow writer Henry Mills, however, Melody begins to ask questions. She begins to question if Victoria Belfrey really is untouchable. She questions if the lyre and ship and pan flute drawings in her journal are just from her own imagination. And more than anything, she begins to question if the trail of dead in her wake are really dead at all.

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Story alternates between flashbacks and present day Hyperion Heights. Includes depictions of events from before, during, and after the series canon

Warnings: depictions and mentions of trauma and violent loss of loved ones

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Start Date: March 12, 2021
End Date: --

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