The Shadow That Smiled At Me
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"What if I'm not crazy, but the whole world has gone crazy?"
This story will introduce you to three years of madness of a girl named Arya.
Arya is a perfectly ordinary girl. She comes from a rich family, dates the captain of the football team, she is popular - many would like to change with her, after all, she has a perfect life. But no one sees the game she plays every day. Arya is only interesting for parents if she meets their expectations. Her friends don't really know her. At night, she suffers from nightmares, or rather one recurring nightmare - she stands on a high cliff, falls over the edge and is engulfed in darkness. But one day, on her sixteenth birthday, everything changes. Samael captures her in the shadows and brings her to his world. Arya no longer falls into oblivion. A completely new and mysterious world opens up for her, a world of shadows and the damned. In order to finally feel the freedom she's longed for for years, she'll have to break the mask of perfection she's created and face her own past.
She discovers that maybe she's not crazy, but the whole world is crazy.
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