The Hub is a prison. A prison in between worlds, for the people who've tried to escape their own. Every dimensional traveller will eventually find themselves here, waiting. Because when they left, they could never find their way back to their true universe. Only ever false copies, almost like home, almost like the people you knew, but never the real ones.
It was a prison made by gods, but those gods are all long dead. The new generation has risen, and they war for the throne. You and everyone else stuck here aren't even ants to these gods, and it's a lucky day when nothing happens. It's a lucky day when reality doesn't twist and bend, when blood doesn't rain from the sky, when the eyes that follow you are human.
When you can keep yourself sane.
However, you're not like everyone else here. You didn't commit the crime, you don't belong here. You never took that step away from your original world. You never left your home - not willingly, at least. You just want to go home. To the home you were torn from.
But they won't let you, will they?
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Warnings: general yandere creepiness you can expect from me, male leads who are 100% not human, eldritch horror (really? wouldn't have guessed), general horror, gore, mindbreak that you are only slightly resistant to, a cast of adults who do spicy things, and just some generally terrifying stuff. This story was based on a nightmare I had years ago, and you're going to feel it.
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Art credit: https://twitter.com/sn_ozk
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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