Years ago, she ended a love that was meant to be, with nothing but a letter.

Now, you're both trapped in shared memories. You can't leave.

[WLW]

[CW: Homophobia / Arranged Marriage / Repressed Sexuality]

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Mara Maretti was raised to be perfect. She'd always been quiet yet smart - she excelled in her studies, especially in economics and history - but her traditional family didn't teach her how to find herself.

University was supposed to make her a more valuable asset to the family. Instead, it made her human. It gave her friends, a future she had never imagined, and you. You helped her discover herself - and you both discovered what it's like to love.

But when her family learned about your relationship, they caged her with threats and expectations until she convinced herself there was no way out. She couldn't even break up face-to-face - she broke your heart through a letter. She was too terrified to do better, and she'd regret it for the rest of her life.

Now she's living the life her parents had dreamed of for her. But she's engaged to a man she doesn’t love, a political marriage that brings her only dread. As a family tutor, she's forced to teach her cousins values she doesn't believe in. She can't stop dreaming about you, the only person that made her feel like she could be herself. The only person she'd actually want to spend her life with.

And now you've woken up in the same dream, ensnared in Celeste's world. You can't leave until she's satisfied.

The Ascendancy

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Set in the Earth 1940s when it comes to fashion, culture and technology. However, military technology was less advanced - magic took that role. About 0.2% of the world population was born Gifted. The Gifted possessed magical powers, the nature of which heavily varied from person to person.

The Ascendancy was an expansionist dictatorship. Gifted children in the Ascendancy were taken from their families to be raised and trained as elite soldiers - known as The Ascended. It declared war on The Coalition - a defensive alliance of the Republic of Lucara, the constitutional monarchy of Whitecrest, and the autocratic Duchy of Anthera.

Mara's story began in the Republic of Lucara, a merchant republic where three gre