Stella Anderson Lockwood had lived a life of constant grooming and suppression, plagued by visions and surrounded by lies. She was smart and curious of nature, perhaps a little too much for her own good. When rumors of a beast with immense powers, some similar to her own started going around, she decided to leave behind her old life and everything she had known, to find out the truth. One fateful day, she took the chance and fled from the village, into the woods that surrounded her home, where the beast was said to be residing. She had put her life in danger without any thought for the consequences that would follow, leaving behind her sister and her home, and throwing away her right to ever return to the village. 
There was no turning back. She needed to know if the rumors were true, even if the truth would come at the cost of her life...



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Ruthless Love.

Zack held up a small wooden box and opened it carefully to reveal a diamond ring inside. 


How long had he been planning on doing this? 


He looked up at me expectantly and I could tell he was being serious. 


When I looked into his eyes I saw love, fondness, and a mix of different feelings that I could hardly make out. 


He seemed nervous but determined in a way I had never seen before. 


Matters like this often made him uneasy and I had previously assumed it was because he was not ready, but when I saw him down on one knee like that... 


"I had prepared a whole speech in my head but as always, I find myself at a loss of words around you... " 


I sent him a reasurring smile as I carefully got down on my knees in front of him. 


The extra weight I was carrying made it difficult and I had to support myself against his shoulder as I did so, but it seemed more right that way. 


[Part 2] The Proposal