Chapter 1: The Midnight Mare

**this is a story in development, may change description if it doesn't fit.**

For a girl in a heartless, gold-chasing city full of teens preparing for an adulthood of becoming bloodied gears in the machinations of a relentless rat race, she dreams of magic, wonder, darkness, friendship, adventure, and starlight. Of mermaids and princes and soldiers and witches and everything in between. Dreams brimming with vibrancy and hope.

But the outside world will always call her back, and in this ensuing conflict between dream and reality, Eleanora must decide whether she must come back to Earth, or be completely swallowed up by dreams forever...