The Unraveling
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Last published Wed, Oct 12, 2022
Nesta is a fiery young woman, hell bent on surviving against all costs. Leon is a soldier, desperate to prove himself to the King who saved his life. Their paths cross in an unlikely way and involve a knife passed between them in an unfriendly manner. The story is set in a land of fiction not unlike that of the one we live in. Humans still behave like humans, still suffer the same problems. As Leon puts in, "Same shite, just different setting."
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