Life, The Afterlife, & Everything Inbetween
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“Hello.” A strangely familiar voice said.
“W-who’s there? Do I know you?” Arianna’s voice wavered still keeping her eyes shut. There was no responce and so she continued in a demanding voice, “Tell me who you are right now!” She was scared seeing as she thought she had been all alone all this time. Trying to reassure herself she muttered, “Maybe I’m going crazy....”
“You aren’t crazy,” the voice replied, “And I am very much real.” Arianna gave a slight scream and her eyes opened.
A child born out of wedlock and caught in a racial and territorial war is sent away to an orphanage when she's just a baby. Abused her whole life for being different, she eventually runs away and tries to get to her father's homeland. Along the way she finds a new friend as well finds out she is being hunted down, which lead to a terrifying incident that sends her farther away then she ever imagined possible. Join Arianna as she struggle's through an abusive life, a betrayal, wars of the heart, forgiveness, and the supernatural.
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