A City on Fire
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  • Reads 301
  • Votes 8
  • Parts 7
  • Time 1h 57m
Ongoing, First published Nov 28, 2016
The City on Fire is a complex labyrinth of closes, and narrow alleyways. Hidden in plain sight, away from the eyes of the unaware, is a small hole in a wall. What secrets lays beneath the closed curtains of the Crown ward, what are they concealing from the eyes of those they deem lesser.

Simon wakes up in a dark room, and can't remember anything that happened after breakfast that morning. 
Scarlet is the assistant of the apothecary in the lower wards in the city, and is particularly talented in medicine. 
The prodigious son 
The Colonels wife 
The Captain 
And the Colonel himself 

All are drawn together by a strange coin, and the prospect of revealing those who deem themselves higher's deepest, darkest secrets. 

Set in steampunk, Victorian era. The city is made up of four wards the crown ward, being those who have nothing but money; the sky ward, consists of those who are well off; in the depths of the blue ward, the sky is no longer visable, and the poor roam the streets; and at the very bottom of the city lies the sinister sand wars, where anarchy rules, and crime is a regular occupancy, even the guards dare not enter here...
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