Outside the Hour(s) of Midnight
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Kathrine Belforth. The youngest of the great Belforth linage of her time and the latest to pick up the mantel of family responsibility. The great mission bestowed upon their linage which has evolved to become the sole purpose of their existence, maintaining the integrity of the fabric of reality.
A mission which she has only just been exposed to. A mission which had taken both her parents and her uncle.
As for how they carry out this mission? Its elementary really, their mission. It all boils down to maintaining the fabric of reality by borrowing the power of an ancient book to keep the classic fairy-tales that are their reality just what they were meant to be, classic in a time dominated by fan-fiction and retellings.
Unfortunately for Kat this is delicate work and she's not a delicate person. Never has been probably never will be. The result? Many close calls and near miss missions almost always ending with one of her older twin cousins having to save her ass and reality as a whole. But does she give up? Never.
Why would she? This is the one thing she in all her life has ever felt was truly and rightfully the purpose of her existence. Giving up on it would be akin to giving up on herself once again. Going back to the darkness of the days just after her father had died.
So she kept on, hoping from story to story wielding glass slippers and diamond tiaras alike as her weapons of justice in a desperate effort to bring justice upon those blasted original characters and their crusade against what is right and proper. All while trying to keep her own story going as it should of course. This is her purpose and she's going to fulfil it even if it kills her.
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