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<p>Marith, a lonesome, pale cellist and a university drop-out, is a driven, but nervous young woman. She was nervous about her looks, her failed academic intents, her musical abilities, but most of all she was nervous that she would never amount to much. She had learned how to live with this anxiety, more or less, after she had accepted it as an invariable part of her personality.</p> <p>Unbeknownst to her she had every reason to be nervous that morning, while she stomped up the stairs of the local train station, deserted and shrouded in mist.</p> <p>An unlikely, and quite impossible, train accident is about to hurtle her into a world she had always suspected existed. It was a dark and absurd place she had rejected and suppressed when she was young. Now she would need that dormant part of herself to survive.</p> <p>"No one can see it, some can feel it, and only the few can use it. We belong to the few."</p> <p>After a brief hospitalization she must choose between two continents and finds herself reluctantly boarding a plane to Oregon. She returns to the town she grew up in, which is where her father still lives and her childhood memories linger.</p> <p>Through an improbable and unfortunate series of events she is soon introduced to a motley crew of characters that appear to be carrying the same struggles through life. They possess a familiar sense of inadequacy and insecurity. Marith realizes that for the first time in her life she has found herself a tribe, or, as they prefer to call it, a Chain.</p> <p>Over the course of several weeks Marith learns that, together with her Chain, she is expected to save the fabric of reality, while simultaneously fighting a mysterious and immortal creature and his aggressive pet.</p> <p>Meanwhile, Marith wants nothing more than to escape the reality she is supposed to serve and protect. Together with her newfound lover she appears to be succeeding at that, to some extend.</p> <p>*****</p> <p>The total word count of the first 12 chapters amounts to about 85.000 words. The total word count of the first 30 chapters will amount to about 225.000 words.</p> <p>My chapters range, roughly, from 5.000 to 10.000 words.</p> <p>I attempt to post several chapters per month. I post on random days and at different times, to serve the algorithm.</p> <p>I will announce new chapters on my IG-account (@meryll_bell).</p> <p>I hope you will enjoy the story! English is not my first language and I am very much open to constructive criticism.</p> <p>Disclaimer: I regularly use impressionistic or abstract language on purpuse, when I think it might serve the story.</p>
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