Secrets Woven In Elderwood
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There's a library everybody goes to. It's just a little way into the forest where everyone goes missing, except...No one seems to go missing when they're heading to the library. The lone Librarian is well known as Elder Asteria Xandria. She's friendly and seems to know every person's name by heart, even those she's never met. Elder Asteria works the entire library alone. No one knows how she does it, but she does. The food is to die for, and she has every book you can think of. She knows what book and snack you'll choose before you do. Her hair is silvery and down to her waist. Elder Asteria always wears long, flowy, colorful dresses that swish behind her and give her a what seems to be a magical entrance. I, Althea, love the library. I'm there every day. Elder Asteria greets me every day by name with my coffee order from the library Cafe. She helps me study and refills my coffee whenever I need. I never pay for anything here. Elder Asteria gives me advice and finds me the exact book I need at any moment. However, I believe once the library closes, the actual magic happens. For those who are brave enough to venture into the forest and find the library at night, mystical memories await. What magic it is, no one knows. Who Elder Asteria really is is unknown. No person left in this world knows her past, who she was before the library, before the old stories were just stories. Are you willing to find out with me?
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A girl in a white veil, the forest calls her to itself. She will be lost in it forever. A quiet voice, a whisper leads his bride far away. Somewhere there stands an old castle, a cursed prince dwells within its walls. When the full moon rises in the night sky, the monster awakens. The white veil of the bride turns crimson. A story as old as time. Nereyeny ran towards the forest as if her life was at stake. She hesitated for a moment before crossing the line of no return. She looked back at the place where she had grown up, lived, and was supposed to die and lie in the ground there forever. All her life layed there, everything except the one thing she longed for the most. Freedom. "Nereyeny!" They were already looking for her. She couldn't afford to hesitate any longer. She turned on her heel and stepped into the darkness. She knew that no one would dare to chase her there. Only a fool. People were afraid of the cursed forest. Eyes watching your every step. Whispers leading you into the void. Creatures from the depths of hell itself. They say dark forces dwell there, no one who goes in will ever come out. And Nereyeny was proof that it was all a lie, spending almost every day there, running under the treetops like a wild wolf. She didn't believe those tales. About the full moon. About the proud prince. About the curse. Until she too became one of those lost in its bowels. Trapped in the same trap as Prince Astreus, son of the Sun and the Moon. A proud prince, real, made of flesh and blood, who is not at all like she has heard of him. At least the fairy tales are wrong about one thing. And maybe they are wrong about everything. Secrets, pride, the whims of the gods, and maybe even fate itself. A burnt-out faith in breaking the curse. Nereyeny must now find a way out before the next full moon comes and the monster finds her.
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