Ignorance is Bliss

"What you don't know can't hurt you."

"Ignorance is bliss?"

"It is."

"I call Bullshit."

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Alexis Shae Kordel never once thought of herself as a 'handful' of a child. Despite what most of her babysitters said, her past did not intervene with her growth into adulthood at all. Hell, she almost forgot what had happened so long ago. To be fair, she was young.

It was almost as though she carried invisible strings with her wherever she went. When you meet Shae, you're tied to her for life. No way out - no matter how hard you tug at the strings.
Not an ounce of social skills in the girl, and yet she draws people in like a large, human magnet.

But she was so blissfully ignorant.

She didn't know of the chaos that followed in her shadow, building until it strikes.
And all the people tangled in her invisible strings of fate are her shields without knowing it.
But a person can only take a beating for so long.

Yet there's no way out.

What happens when someone who knows too much finds a thin, delicate piece of thread tied to their wrist after meeting a strange girl.

"What you don't know can't hurt you."

But they do know.

It's too late to be ignorant.

Who becomes the shield now? Who becomes the shielded?

And how do you keep that stubborn, snoopy girl from getting herself hurt?