[LoTM x SS fanfic]
Within the veiled mechinations of fate, God decree senseless retribution upon creations not his own, the devil echoes whispers for salvation from the abyss of his own mind long forlorn.
A lone shepherd stands atop the Temple of Sinners, watching the lost writhe below, while a pale slug burrows through a river of flowing mercury, waiting for the cracks to grow.
Far away, a young boy, torn from his world of normalcy and cast into the merciless realm of Nightmares, faces a difficult choice between the Crown and the Gavel.
He choses the Crown.
And is cursed by Fate.
On his journey to meet a shadow and a star, he finds others just like him, forced into a world they don't belong to, with a difficult choice of their own.