Death, she decided very quickly, was deeply underwhelming.
There was no tunnel of light. No dead relatives waiting with open arms. No emotional orchestra swelling in the background as she peacefully ascended into the afterlife after a meaningful final thought.
No.
One moment she had been dragging herself home after a fourteen-hour shift with the grace of a dying Victorian orphan, and the next moment something absolutely ridiculous happened.
To this day, she would firmly argue that it was not her fault. The object in question had not even looked dangerous.
In fact, she distinctly remembered staring at it in confusion before everything went black. That was the insulting part.
Not only had she died, but she had died stupidly.
No ancient prophecy.
No dramatic sacrifice.
No cool final speech.
Just exhaustion, bad luck, and what she could only describe as cosmic nonsense. Then came the nothingness, except it was not really nothingness.
That was what made it so deeply unsettling.
The space around her seemed bright, yet there was no visible source of light. It was colourless while somehow containing every colour imaginable at once. It felt cold and warm simultaneously, heavy and weightless, silent yet buzzing faintly beneath the surface like distant static buried underneath water.
She could not tell if she was standing or if she even had a body and at first, panic clawed at her throat then confusion settled in, and then irritation.
Because what exactly was she supposed to do here? She floated or maybe she drifted or maybe she was simply existing inside whatever this strange place was supposed to be.
Time did not feel real, it could have been five minutes. It could have been five centuries, and eventually she folded invisible arms across her invisible chest.
“Well,” she muttered into the void, “this is weird.”
Her voice echoed strangely. Not outward maybe inward, like the sound had nowhere to travel except directly back into her own mind. Nothing answered and she sighed dramatically, “If this is the afterlife,” she said, “I want a refund.”
Sneak peek 🤭 (sorry about the AI generated photos, can’t draw lol)
🌝 Mallory Chainmoor
Nickname: Mal, Lory
Age: 19
Role: Main female lead, original side character
Family: Daughter of Tymon Chainmoor and the late Eveline Chainmoor. Stepdaughter of Lillian Chainmoor. Younger sister of Calhoun and Angel. Older half-sister of Kareem.
Fiancé: Currently unnamed
Relationship Status: Engaged through family arrangement, but Mallory herself does not care for romance right now, she cares about money more.
Personality: Mallory is blunt, sharp-tongued, dramatic in her own head, and allergic to nonsense. She is not naturally elegant in the perfect noble lady way, but she is intelligent, observant, and stubborn enough to survive situations that would usually crush quieter people. She hates misunderstandings and prefers dragging problems into the light immediately rather than letting them rot for twelve chapters. She can be harsh when wronged, especially toward people who abuse power, but she is not heartless. Under her sarcasm, she is unsettled by the original Mallory’s loneliness and slowly becomes protective of the life she inherited.
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🦊 Yang Foxworth
Nickname: Yan
Age: 22
Role: Original second male lead, current male lead
Family: House Foxworth. Parents can be decided later, but his family should be old, politically sharp, and slightly mysterious.
Relationship Status: Unmarried
Personality: Yang is charming in a dangerous way. He is sly, observant, graceful, and very good at pretending he is less serious than he actually is. He likes watching people reveal themselves through small mistakes. He is not loud or openly aggressive; his danger comes from patience, intelligence, and the fact that he notices too much. Around Mallory, he becomes amused because she is impossible to predict, but he also slowly becomes protective without making it obvious. He is the kind of man who smiles while already knowing three secrets.
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🎀 Arin Balliol
Nickname: Rin
Age: 18
Role: Original female lead
Family: House Balliol. Family details can stay vague until needed.
Relationship Status: Originally tied to Alarik’s romance route in the novel
Personality: Arin looks like the perfect delicate heroine at first glance, but she is more human than Mallory expected. She is polite, observant, nervous in social situations, and far less helpless than the original story made her seem. She has moments of awkwardness, quiet courage, and emotional intelligence. Mallory expected a Mary Sue heroine, but Arin turns out to be a real girl trying to survive noble society with dignity. Her kindness can be mistaken for weakness, but she is not stupid.
❄️Alarik Lionfeld
Nickname: Al
Age: 21
Role: Original male lead
Family: House Lionfeld. Likely a powerful noble or military-connected family.
Relationship Status: Original intended love interest of Arin
Personality: Alarik is cold, controlled, handsome, and intense. He gives off the feeling of someone raised to be useful before being happy. He is masculine without being bulky, elegant without being soft, and emotionally locked up like a bank vault with abandonment issues. In the original novel, Mallory remembers him as the typical cold male lead, but in reality he is more complicated. He notices more than he says and does not enjoy being emotionally manipulated by society.
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