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IN EVERY OTHER UNIVERSE, THEIR LOVE DEFIES ALL.
AND, IN EVERY OTHER UNIVERSE, LOVE IS NEVER ENOUGH.

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ORPHEUS.

How will you remember?

EURYDICE.

That I love you?

ORYPHEUS.

Yes.

EURYDICE.

That's easy. I can't help it.

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⁺◟DEDICATIONS ꜜ

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To those who dreams of reaching the stars, and to the stars themselves: kinaiiya, soulatire, daenerysloki, floralysis,
artcinemas, binarysun, shezzaspeare, miasfairytales,
& notasgard

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⁺◟The Synopsis: Where the Story Begins & Ends . . ꜜ

     
      Not enough people have an inkling of their existence, but on some rudimentary level, most have come to suspect, and perhaps even understand, the truth of the life they have been experiencing.

     Reality is infinite. We are living in worlds within worlds. But within those realities are sentient vessels, made of mind and matter, living and breathing souls who walk among the stars and beyond. Reality is infinite, but even those beneath such aspects are finite. Most believe that we are nothing more than dust and ashes scattered across the cosmos, moulded solely to live in one reality only to die in another.

     When a mortal vessel becomes clay, the soul becomes the first vessel. A life within another life, and yet more. A closed door opens a second door. A memory becomes instinct, reaching and pulling at the strings of your heart like a fever dream — tearing at the raw, bleeding crevices of the mind. Then, these dreams become visions. Visions turn into reality. Reality grows into how we view ourselves — an anti-hero, a hero, or perhaps a civilian. No one knows. Each of us plays a role; each time a different one. The players change, the story remains the same. The choice is not ours, theirs. Reality is infinite, just as choices have thousands of consequences. An endless maze of diverging paths. With light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. For the hand of time waits for no soul, mortal or not, good and evil, it turns, and it turns, and it will keep turning as the lights die and the forests dim, storms call, and skies break.

     (That is how the story must end and, thus, begin.)

     A universe within an infinite cosmos expands at the expense of an early universe, a brigade of stars collapsing underneath the weight of another's beginning. Time's ticking. The hours pour into minutes, minutes turn into seconds, and seconds into nanoseconds. It seeps through the fingers like refined grains of sand. Someone in the vast pits of the universe tosses a coin. Heads or tails, there's no difference. There's no escaping the inevitable fate for those who live aware and unaware of their place in the universe; a universe rattled and scorned will not live to see the light of the eternal abyss.

But somewhere in the vast, swirling cosmos, a cry echoes throughout the void of stars that shakes the planets to their core. A plead, a bargain. Desperate, agonizing, blazing. The judgement has been made. But a choice still stands. Heads or tails. A choice has to be made. A second. A breath. One foot after the other. The hand of time waits for no soul, but if her soul is damned, so be it.

     ( "They live," The agreement was concise. "You die." )

     And yet ⸻if given a choice, she would do it again.

    Ashes to ashes. Whatever it takes.

⁺◟Dramatis Personae:  The Characters of a Play or Novel . . ꜜ

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Anna Sawai        Adira Stelmaria Zevros
𓇻     ⸻   ALSO:    The Phoenix
❪ ‎ ‎ ‎DAUGHTER-HEIR ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎⋆ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎Destroyer ‎ ‎ ‎❫

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THEM:    You're a monster.
HER:    Better a monster than an arrogant God.

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Tom Hiddleson          Loki Laufeyson 
𓇻      ⸻    ALSO:     The God of Mischief
❪ ‎ ‎ ‎CUNNING TRICKSTER ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎⋆ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎Chaosbringer ‎ ‎ ‎❫

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BROTHER:   How can I trust you?
HIM:   Trust my rage.

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Daniel Henney,    Alaris Khan
Andrew Koji,     Athalas Zevros
Eva Green,     Nerissa Ardon
Chris Hemsworth,     Thor Odinson

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Charlotte Nicdao,     Amara Santiago
Dichen Lachman,    The Ancient One

The Playlist:    Daylight's End

The Score:    The Stars Align

⁺◟Tati Speaks: Musings from the Author . . ꜜ

💫 All information regarding Adira's family, background, as well as the places mentioned in the story are all fictional. Any similarity in terms of names and places are purely coincidental and have nothing to do with anything in reality. ALSO: There will be mention of blood, gore, as well as vulgar words that might be triggering for those who will read. I will put a warning before the beginning of a chapter where such things are mentioned/will be happening. 

💫 With regards to the change of Adira's face claim, I simply had no more inspiration to use Amanda Seyfried as Adira ⸻ EVEN THOUGH, hear me out! I just know some of you now associate the actress as the official face of Adira, and changing the face claim is just way too much of a drastic change. Then again, this book goes under drastic changes every two years or so but I just hope this one sticks with me. Hopefully, it will be the same to you, readers. 

💫 Relationship-wise, Adira and Loki will have somewhat-of-a complicated relationship with one another ⸻ Reason: It has something to do with Adira's destiny and future. Let me spoil you a bit: she can / will kind of defy the laws of time. Bit of a Time-Lord moment if you ask me. They are still Soulmates in Every Universe, but their dynamics will change over-time because time is not as long as they want it to be, and for some reason so is fate. In other words, they are a bit Exile by Taylor Swift-coded. 

💫 Adira and Loki's dynamic and relationship is based off of the dynamics between Adora and Catra from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. They're heavily inspired by the Childhood Friends-Mutual Pining-Turned Lovers-Turned Enemies-Turned Lovers trope, but very sexier.

💫 Adira's character is based off these several characters: Adora and Mara from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones, Rose Tyler from Doctor Who.

💫 Adira's transition from a very powerful monarch, dedicated to her destined future, to an out-of-place novice with an even bigger purpose from what she was destined for will be further developed in this story. I feel like her struggles and failure to accept who she is after [redacted] was not well-thought of in the first drafts of this story, so now I want to write and elaborate it further as best as I can. Her relationship with her family was sourly rushed in the first drafts of this book and I feel like, no matter how many drafts or changes to her family, I did not justify her relationship with her siblings and parents well enough, and hence the reason why I always try to change them every time I appear on this orange app. But I will try and give them justice in this version. 

💫 As such, all information regarding Adira's character, family, background and the places that are not familiar to you are all of my own making. Therefore, you have no right to plagiarize this as it will have dire consequences and it is against the law. 

💫 I love you all. Thank you.

By  CAPTAINSMARVEI   /   2023