The Greylight Bride-- ONC 2025
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Ongoing, First published Feb 02
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Elenore was supposed to be dead. Even now, years later, it's as though her body  and mind remember this fact. With each passing winter she felt her debt grow heavier, the truth of her existence scorched into her mind.

Her life was an exchange. 

A desperate plea from her mother, bound in blood to a mysterious deity that haunts the windswept moors. She would be born a healthy, living child... Yet at the age of twenty-four she would be swept up into its world as its bride. Her soul forever bound to it. Her heart filled with a treacherous longing.
Each night it haunts her dreams and by day her eyes are plagued by visions of a world filled with dead things and a kingdom that crumbles under ground. 
............
Iris would do anything for her daughter. Kill for her even, if she had to. 
She never intended for it-- for him-- to ruin it all. One stupid mistake, one moment of desperation had damned them all. 
She had only wanted to keep Elenore safe. To keep the last remaining piece of her husband alive within her. 
The price for this was heavy. Too heavy. And with Elenore's twenty fourth birthday quickly approaching, Iris wonders how far she may need to go to keep her daughter safe.

Written for ONC 2025
Prompts:
1. You stumble on a mysterious door made entirely of brambles and thorns. As you step through, you're granted extraordinary powers. But with great power comes great responsibility-- it's now your duty to save the crumbling kingdom.

13. When you challenge a magical being, the rules are simple: you must finish what you started, no matter the cost.
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