the rise of harriet

Eighty-two years ago, in the war of conquest, the modern world was lost.

Eighty-two years later, the world is now fested with children of great power. The spinning globe is now and forever ruled by a God and three Goddesses, who make nothing easy for their loyal subjects.

Once upon their golden throne sat a holy man, last name Oakley. A mistake they truly regret...

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Empress Donna Oakley rules below the skies, the world and its kingdoms are at her feet. But she was never the heir.

She was never suppose to be the third generation of Oakley to rule in the name of the Gods above. She was but the third daughter, twin to the second son. The forth child with a twin who died too young, an older sister unfit to rule, and an older brother who never married again after his wife passed in the childbed with his heir. Now leaving the fear of continuing their line deep in her throat.

A fear she now passes onto her only son, Juniper.

Prince Juniper is heir, her heir. He's but twenty years of age, time for him to marry-- time for the Gods to choose his bride...

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Harriet, the commoner with powers of dreams. She's not yet to be seventeen, way too young for everything she's already experienced. A sixteen year old human baby deer, so calls her great grandfather. A good and kind girl, generous and smart too.

She's everything a young commoner girl ought to be, the heart of her little village.

She has a love, by the name of Leon. A good boy only a year her elder, a mere commoner like her. It's a wedding the whole of the village is waiting to happen, a happy day for it'll be. But a wedding the gods will never let live.

No, they have something else in store for poor Harriet.

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or,

In which a young girl is chosen to bear the pain of an empire...

Original story by Maya Vazquez