Clockwork Shadows
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  • Reads 26
  • Votes 6
  • Parts 5
  • Time 56m
Ongoing, First published Jan 10, 2016
"They are all just shadows of the people they used to be"
-Myrina Steel

In a world with cities made up comPletely of machinery, where the fearsome SiLver Crowns rule and Lords and Ladies live the highlights, Lady Myrina Steel meets her doOm. Well no, not liTerally. You see, Myrina Steel isn't your normal high class Lady ready for the Taking. So when three neW suitors arrive, prepared to steel her heart, Myrina refuses to fall for theIr charm. 

Soon the festival will begin, but will everything go aS planned or will an uglier shadow be casT? Let's just say that this isn't you're average story, especially not in this world.
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