Words Apart

In a world built from the shattered fragments of a lost age, stories have power and some stories can kill. Kestrel is a street kid trying to survive in a city where opportunity is scarce and mercy is scarcer. When a strange man named Ludo(or Riddle), accidentally ruins her only chance at steady work, she follows him out of spite and curiosity. she doesn't know he is a character written into existence by a sociopathic author named David, or that he is learning to write back.David has spent twelve years crafting the perfect tragedy, using stolen magic to turn his manuscript into reality. his characters suffer beautifully. his victims die meaningfully. and the world bends to his narrative will... until it doesn't.Fate has seen every ending for five hundred years being that she is a shard bearer of the Renascence core, spite that she cant change anyone's fate. Envy/Miya trains every morning in an empty yard, disparate to matter to the people who will never see her. A disciple of death learns the names of the forgotten. Pride/Goru and his journey for redemption, and the struggles that come along with it. Vagabonds and their great, manipulative story telling. Some where, in the space between pages, David watches his masterpiece begin to unravel. when the copy learns to write his own story, when the street kid discovers she can rewrite fate itself, and when the characters refuse to die as scripted, David's perfect tragedy becomes something else entirely. a story about stories. about the artists who created and the creations who resist. about the courage to love temporary things, and the audacity to dance even when you look ridiculous. Words Apart is a literary fantasy about authorship, agency, and what happens when characters realize they where never just characters at all.