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Sally Bromley
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Writer, reader, runner, renovating an 18th century fisherman's cottage on the Sussex coast.
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Sally Bromley @sallybromley.bsky.social · 7d
Presenting my #agentsguide for
'Beauty is a Brittle Glass'
BLUE SISTERS X THE PUSH X THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.
🪞 Adult 82k
🪞 Dual POV
🪞 Speculative Elements
🪞 Beauty & Fashion
🪞 LGBTQ
🪞 Friends to Lovers
🪞 Disability Rep
#questpit #A #Q
Green background. Images of a woman's face in a gold picture frame. Splashes of gold. A woman with long dark hair turning sideways, hair blowing in the wind, eyes closed. Splashes of gold paint. A gold handprint. Background is the close up of a woman's face, splashed with gold paint. Three bookcovers. Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors, a young woman's sad face, The Push by Ashley Audrain and The Picture of Dorian Gray and a young handsome man with a partially diseased face. Green background splashed with gold paint. Images of a model on a Catwalk, a woman having injections in her face, a group of spooky trees, a photographer and an evil hand reaching out for a pale woman's hand.
sallybromley.bsky.social
Perfect for Christmas, 'A Bloody Merry Murder' by #theanonymums Emile Castera and Eve Goodfellow. I'm gifting this copy to The Arcade Bookshop in Littlehampton, who are holding a #giftforbookforchristmas event on Christmas Eve.
#bookpost
Book cover. A Bloody Merry Murder in black and red writing. A Christmas wreath, glass if wine, child's dummy and a hand print. Two red Christmas baubles.
November 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
sallybromley.bsky.social
A family flees a forest fire, treading water for hours in the sea before they are rescued. Traumatised and scarred, the forest destroyed, they seek answers in order to heal. A perfect metaphor for collective responsibility for global warming.
#bookpost
Red book cover of The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri. A tree, half in leaf, the other half burned. The silhouette of a jackal. The book is held up in front if a woodburner.
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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msdyliacco.bsky.social
LUTHER X BLADE RUNNER
The Titus Imperative keeps Wireds from harming humans. At least, it should.
When humans & androids turn up dead in his city, PI Eliot must prove the killer isn’t Wired before they decommission all androids, including the one he loves.
#questpit #A #Q #SF #bipoc
Drawing of male detective between female and android in red background
November 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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carlyhiebner.bsky.social
She’s all big-city glamour and crème brûlée. He’s more meatloaf and Midwestern stubborn. When a culinary queen clashes with a grumpy college professor, sparks—and spatulas—fly.
#questpit #Q #A #R
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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jennleefrances.bsky.social
DON'T LET THE FOREST IN x BENT NECK LADY

Simone's risking Jadriel's Life & Nina's Afterlife

🖤AWARD Best Submission SCBWI MayFest 2025
🖤WINNER WriteHive Mentorship 2025
🖤Big 5 Editor Requests

GRIEF-RAGE-POWER
Romance & Revenge
A NEW URBAN LEGEND #TheEastRiverWraith
#YA #S Feminist #H #R #QuestPit
November 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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meliasmouth.bsky.social
I’m delighted to see all you Book People moving away from Leon’s World. Over here, the air is clean, the water is pure, and the skies are blue.

I am
* a soft-boiled mystery writer (pjdonison.com), indie published, working on Book 3, Death of the Butcher.
1/3
Cover image of Death Comes For Christmas Cover image of Death At The Crossroads
November 17, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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annlittler.bsky.social
A sneak peek at my new WIP for #QuestPit

Rapunzel X Eastern European Folklore

#TowerWIP #W #YA #H #R
1) Scottish Highlands 2) Two teens silhouetted 3) A dead body 4) Teens hiking in mist 5) A crumbling Scottish castle 6) A figure with a scythe
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 AM
sallybromley.bsky.social
#editors take a 👀👀👀 at this! It'll be snapped up quickly for sure. ❤️🖤
saracatherine23.bsky.social S.C. Field @saracatherine23.bsky.social · Oct 9
#editorsguide for Manon—
This story is my baby, my first love. She is everything I ever wanted to read in a story as a reader, and I can’t wait to see where she lands a home❤️

#editors #agented #gothicfiction #editorsguide #gothic #historical
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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crystalbauthor.bsky.social
Here is my list for #QuestPit

1. Healing Silver #W #A #R
2. The Children who Whispered to Water #W #MG #F
3. Wilderness Lockup #W #A #DR #Dys #T

Feedback/critiques are welcome.
Top pics: A WW2 nurse in a grey dress, medical arm band, white apron & headscarf looking away at a building with the title in curly grey font Healing Silver, & a woman & soldier in the middle of war hiding each other with a quote “Behind every strong soldier, there is an even stronger woman who stands behind him, supports him, & loves him with all her heart. Middle pics: A pic of the hospital tent from MASH & a quote: “Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop.” H.L. Mencken, & A pic of Nurse Margaret & Radar when he was sick in MASH, & a quote “Love &war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil & good, beauty & ugliness.” Rick Riordan Bottom pics: A pic of Diagon Alley in HP when it was attacked with a quote “His kiss was a poison that my body craved. I was an addict, diving headfirst into the drug I knew would destroy me.” J.M. Leigh, & a pic from a TV show A Discovery of Witches & a quote "all is fair in love & war" Francis Edward Smedley Top 2 pics: The 2 Kelpie heads at Falkirk & a little girl in a white dress on a dock putting little paper boats in water. The kelpie pic has a quote “When thowes dissolve the snawy hoord, An' float the jinglin' icy boord, Then water-kelpies haunt the foord, By your direction, And 'nighted trav'llers are allur'd To their destruction.” Robert Burns Middle 2 pics: A Fjord with an old castle looking building & a yellow flowering meadow in the Scottish Highlands. The fjord pic has a quote: “In the depths they await to hear the children's whispered calls.” - The Children who Whispered to Water. Bottom Pic: An art pic of a kelpie with glowing white eyes coming out of the water to a shore of a forest. At the bottom of the pic is the title in green in a watery font The Children who Whispered to Water. There is a quote “No mortal ear could have heard the kelpie passing through the night, for the great black hooves of it were as soundless as feathers falling" The Kelpie's Pearls, Molly Hunter Top pics: a cabin in snowy mountains & a woman walking in a jungle forest. Over those 2 pics is the title in orange Wilderness Lockup. On the snowy pic is a quote: “the instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derive from it.” - Robert Heinlein 2nd row pics: A blonde girl in an orange coat with a tan backpack in a forest holding a map, & a man in an orange jacket sailing a boat on an ocean. 3rd row pics: a man walking in a sandy desert, & a girl walking in a red rock area. The desert pic has a quote: “Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest.” - Carrie Ryan, The Dark & Hollow Places Bottom pics: A man kayaking in a Swamp, a man hiking a Hawaiian trail by the ocean, & a man crying on the sign at the Katahdin trailhead. The Hawaiian picture has a quote "I don't think I outfitted you. I don't think I outfitted you. The only thing I did was outcast you." Bob Crowley, Gabon
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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nattykbrown.bsky.social
On the brink of extinction a translator holds the fate of two species in her hands, but as she learns secrets from both sides, she must decide which, if any, deserve to be saved

#SFPit #A #Q #SF #Clifi #agentsguide
October 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
sallybromley.bsky.social
#litagents take a 👀 at this. I loved Rebecca and can't wait to read this. 💥
kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 8d
𝕕𝕦 𝕄𝕒𝕦𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕣'𝕤 ℝ𝔼𝔹𝔼ℂℂ𝔸 𝕩 ℕ𝕖𝕥𝕗𝕝𝕚𝕩'𝕤 𝕋ℍ𝔼 ℙ𝔼ℝ𝔽𝔼ℂ𝕋 ℂ𝕆𝕌ℙ𝕃𝔼
When everyone she loves has motive for a murder, a PR exec who's always tried to do the 'right thing' must decide how far she'll go to protect them. Especially the man she's in love with. The dead woman's husband.
#Questpit #Q #A #RF #MY
An Agent's Guide to Careless Whispers, Romantic Suspense, a 97k word romantic suspense. Various pictures of characters from the book. Pitch & Plot and has the following text: With their multiple homes and a business portfolio of luxury hotels, the Constantines' lives might be a world away from 29-year-old Listy Powers’ but Troy and his sister Olympia are like family, an unlikely yet close bond forged years ago at university. So when she learns Olympia, badly injured in a car accident, is back home on the Greek island of Paxos, Listy sets off immediately to see her. Being at their villa, however, means unavoidable proximity with Olympia's very disapproving eldest brother whom Listy has always loved. When they first met 8 years ago, Kris was a married man with a pregnant wife; now he's a widower. But as the attraction they'd fought back then re-kindles, suspicions resurface about Kris' wife's death. Beautiful, manipulative Rianna had not been well-liked. Her speciality was ferreting out people's secrets. And everyone, Listy discovers, has something to hide. As she unravels what happened to Rianna, the truth threatens Listy’s future happiness and the lives of those dear to her, and she must decide if crossing that line to protect someone she loves is a price she's willing to pay. OPENING LINES - When she hears the footsteps behind her, she doesn't rise from the lounger or look round but just rolls her eyes and takes another gulp of wine, fixing her gaze ahead. Beyond the villa's perimeter wall where the wooded slopes fall away, the sea glimmers under the silver coin of a moon. 'I told you to leave,' she says, her voice slurred. 'It's over. There's nothing more to say.' 'I have plenty to say.' Her head whips round then. She smiles. SNIPPET - When she died,' Olympia says in a hard voice, 'I was relieved. All I could think was, we're free of her now. Now we can begin to be happy.' Listy's face spasms. 'But you're not,' she says. 'None of you are. It scares me, Olympia, all this hate. So much hate. Troy has it too. It's like...like it's eating him up. Rianna's dead but she might as well not be, the hold she still has on you all.' Olympia begins rummaging in the drawer again. 'You didn't know her. You wouldn't understand.' 'I want to. Tell me what happened the night she died. You said she and Kris were arguing.' Collage of pictures and the title The Vibes, Tropes & Themes & The Comps. Tropes and Themes are: du Maurier's Rebecca vibes; Found family; Loss; Slow burn romance; Yearning; Obsession; Unrequited love; Secrets; Betrayal; Murder The Comps – Nanny Wanted by Lizzy Barber, End of Story by AJ Finn, The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and the Sky Atlantic series Riviera
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social
𝕕𝕦 𝕄𝕒𝕦𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕣'𝕤 ℝ𝔼𝔹𝔼ℂℂ𝔸 𝕩 ℕ𝕖𝕥𝕗𝕝𝕚𝕩'𝕤 𝕋ℍ𝔼 ℙ𝔼ℝ𝔽𝔼ℂ𝕋 ℂ𝕆𝕌ℙ𝕃𝔼
When everyone she loves has motive for a murder, a PR exec who's always tried to do the 'right thing' must decide how far she'll go to protect them. Especially the man she's in love with. The dead woman's husband.
#Questpit #Q #A #RF #MY
An Agent's Guide to Careless Whispers, Romantic Suspense, a 97k word romantic suspense. Various pictures of characters from the book. Pitch & Plot and has the following text: With their multiple homes and a business portfolio of luxury hotels, the Constantines' lives might be a world away from 29-year-old Listy Powers’ but Troy and his sister Olympia are like family, an unlikely yet close bond forged years ago at university. So when she learns Olympia, badly injured in a car accident, is back home on the Greek island of Paxos, Listy sets off immediately to see her. Being at their villa, however, means unavoidable proximity with Olympia's very disapproving eldest brother whom Listy has always loved. When they first met 8 years ago, Kris was a married man with a pregnant wife; now he's a widower. But as the attraction they'd fought back then re-kindles, suspicions resurface about Kris' wife's death. Beautiful, manipulative Rianna had not been well-liked. Her speciality was ferreting out people's secrets. And everyone, Listy discovers, has something to hide. As she unravels what happened to Rianna, the truth threatens Listy’s future happiness and the lives of those dear to her, and she must decide if crossing that line to protect someone she loves is a price she's willing to pay. OPENING LINES - When she hears the footsteps behind her, she doesn't rise from the lounger or look round but just rolls her eyes and takes another gulp of wine, fixing her gaze ahead. Beyond the villa's perimeter wall where the wooded slopes fall away, the sea glimmers under the silver coin of a moon. 'I told you to leave,' she says, her voice slurred. 'It's over. There's nothing more to say.' 'I have plenty to say.' Her head whips round then. She smiles. SNIPPET - When she died,' Olympia says in a hard voice, 'I was relieved. All I could think was, we're free of her now. Now we can begin to be happy.' Listy's face spasms. 'But you're not,' she says. 'None of you are. It scares me, Olympia, all this hate. So much hate. Troy has it too. It's like...like it's eating him up. Rianna's dead but she might as well not be, the hold she still has on you all.' Olympia begins rummaging in the drawer again. 'You didn't know her. You wouldn't understand.' 'I want to. Tell me what happened the night she died. You said she and Kris were arguing.' Collage of pictures and the title The Vibes, Tropes & Themes & The Comps. Tropes and Themes are: du Maurier's Rebecca vibes; Found family; Loss; Slow burn romance; Yearning; Obsession; Unrequited love; Secrets; Betrayal; Murder The Comps – Nanny Wanted by Lizzy Barber, End of Story by AJ Finn, The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and the Sky Atlantic series Riviera
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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tiniwiderauthor.bsky.social
A SPARK THAT SHATTERS STEEL – 87k
What if UGLIES crashed a Regency ballroom?

🌟 Alternate history world of power and pretense
❤️ Slow burn
🔥 Girl genius vs gilded patriarchy
💅 Feminist rebellion that outsmarts ...
👑 A royal villain pulling every string
#Q #YA #F #RF #questpit
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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notonlyicarus.bsky.social
presenting the #agentsguide for my adult queer gothic horror romance wip featuring:

🥀 angel summoning cult
🥀 corruption arc(s)
🥀 extremely unreliable narrator
🥀 it’s all a metaphor for ocd

the problem with angels is, sometimes, they talk back.

✨ready for betas in December 👀
#QuestPit #W #A #H
red wallpaper background, to the right is art by @nelsnote of a man looking up holding a bloody book, the light on him is coming from an angel wing and there are eyes in the dark behind him. he has an awestruck expression. to the left is, in gothic print, adult queer gothic horror romance, underneath that says ready for betas December 31, then under that the title forbidden fruits, with a honey drip underneath. to the left a red and black-themed moodboard: around the top border and right border: someone falling through red-tinged clouds; someone in white embracing a dark shadow with a halo behind them; someone standing at the top of some stairs, surrounded by giant red bulging eyes; a faded black and white photo style picture of a dark smudge shadow and the shape of someone hooking their head over the shadow’s shoulder, crying dark tears; red-toned painting of an angel with three eyes. The left space is occupied by a text image, gothic white on red, that reads ‘the problem with angels is sometimes they talk back’ over and over again. on top of that picture, picture of a painting of an eye with a large gold star growing in it. to the right, pitch written in gothic print. the pitch: why do you need an angel? according to the codex his teacher wrote, that’s the most important question to ask when summoning them. simon knows his answer: there’s someone he worships—the teacher he built a cult around—and he won’t stop until he has him. dark red wallpaper background. top left says comps, underneath are pictures of the covers for THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE by Caitlin Starling and EVOCATION by S.T. Gibson. under that is a cream coloured drawing of a wolf. top right says elements in gothic print. elements: angel summoning as dark magic, corruption arc, epistolary dual timeline, violent longing has consequences, Victorian secret societies, he’s not dead until I say so. to the left is an angel statue. dark red wallpaper background. top left says feedback so far in gothic print. feedback is snippets from discord, saying: 1. THE KIND OF LOVE THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT might be in the apocrypha BUT STILL. and arguably, arguably, God so loving the world he gave his one and only son IS HONESTLY THE KIND OF OBSESSION WE’RE TALKING ABOUT HERE I GET YOU. 2. I feel like I was completely ignorant of what horniness even is before I met Simon and his whole deal. like, Jesus Christ, that dude. 3. I need to eat the fruits they are too tempting and beautiful. In the centre is a statue of lucifer. on the right is snippet in gothic print. the snippet: “I miss you desperately. I toy with effigies and cannot make myself reshape you in wax or clay. it’s you I want”
November 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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maholland.bsky.social
Following her parents’ assassination, Aveline must flee from those intent on stealing her throne. Adrift in foreign lands, she finds allies in an unlikely place: three hawk-riding scouts, who aid her in her quest to reclaim her birth right.

#QuestPit #W #Revising #YA #SFF
A mood board for the book Raven Queen's Flight, with strip images of a silhouetted bird of prey, foggy, wooded mountainous landscapes, and a close up of a brown bear.
November 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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maximilliangruff.bsky.social
In the highlands and in the glens, where the volcanic streams tick with waters yet prime, and the corncrake cries and the air is a Gaelic hymn, where blood was ploughed from a crop of people now peregrine.

#questpit #LF #historical #OS #Q
November 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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annkreeves.bsky.social
BLOOD MOON (but make em witchy) & the twisted 🔥of IMMORTAL DARK

A reluctantly good witch is forced to investigate her darkly gifted soulmate when she learns he’s planning to kill her at the altar so that he can keep his forbidden magic all to himself.

#questpit #Q #YA #F #R #RF #S
The image is a dark, romantic mood board with a dark academia setting. Upper left corner images show candles, spell books, herbs, a red full moon. The word “CURSE” torn through paper is in the upper right corner of the mood board. There is a collage of images in the middle, including a library and an old university building. In the center, the words say: “BREAK THE BOND BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE.” Bottom corner of the image shows two people—a Black girl with white curls and a white-haired guy—who represent cursed soulmates. Other images include ivy on a stone house, a bird, pressed flowers, wine, and an old pocket watch. There is a collection of text phrases throughout the mood board: “A Damning Prophecy,” “Forbidden Magic,” “Dark Academia,” and a quote from Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee, “But we loved with a love that was more than love.”
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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thecrumpet.bsky.social
PINEAPPLE STREET x SANDWICH

THIS ENDS NOW: A serial marriage-jilter hits a swanky wellness retreat to learn why she keeps fleeing perfect husbands. But healing means facing her nastiest ghost: the manipulative, brilliant first love whose poison still runs in her veins. #A #UP #Q #QuestPit
A collage: Row 1: Snowy red covered bridge surrounded by bare winter trees and icy branches; close-up of a person removing a gold wedding ring from their finger; vintage map of Northern Vermont showing towns like St. Johnsbury and Walden in pastel tones; text in white serif font on a dark green background: “This Ends Now,” accented with a red and orange autumn leaf graphic. Row 2: a woman kneeling on a windowsill, peering out a rain-flecked window next to 2 lit candles, with city lights glowing outside and icicles hanging from the window frame; a vase of pink carnations on a desk beside a stack of hardcover journals and scattered trinkets including a journal with pressed flowers. Row 3: A man and a woman embracing on a couch in low lighting, with the woman kissing his forehead while she sits on his lap; a dimly lit, narrow library aisle lined with tall shelves, stretching into a warmly lit vanishing point, an image from Yale’s Sterling Library stacks; a woman reading a typed document marked with red handwritten editorial notes; a hand holding a lit match in darkness with the flame casting a warm glow.
November 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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lunacwriting.bsky.social
GILMORE GIRLS in LATAM x Ashley Poston
She spent years lost in maladaptive daydreaming—until one dream bleeds into real life.
❤️‍🔥 Rivals to lovers
🏡 Forced proximity
🌿 Small-town magical realism
🌺 Latinx, anxiety & vitiligo rep
✨Big 5 editor interest
#QuestPit #R #A #Q
November 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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legendofhannah.bsky.social
CRITICAL ROLE meets VAMPIRE DIARIES when half-celestial Cassandra is infected with a dark goddess' plague & marked for sacrifice. She & the beguiling vampire Sylvain must save the realm from eternal darkness before their star-crossed love dooms them all. #questpit #w #f #rf #a
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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lunacwriting.bsky.social
Reverse KPOP DEMON HUNTERS x THE BRIDGE KINGDOM.
A woman cursed with ice powers and vitiligo discovers the heir sent to stop her hides demon blood she can cure.
They bargain to save each other.
But their souls are bound, she's falling in love and his death means hers too.
#QuestPit #F #R #A #OWN
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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ravennavale.bsky.social
Breath of Starlight follows Auryn, a fallen star, and Kailorien, the immortal forged to guard her, as they risk devotion and defiance to break free of a destiny that would consume them—or see their Bond become the weapon that ends the world for the second time.

#questpit #RF #Q #A
Breath of Starlight The Hook description Setting Comps
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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kendrakay.bsky.social
When a powerful ghost and a skeptical ghost hunter find themselves inexplicably bound to one another, the would-be adversaries work together to figure out the source of their new connection while dangers from the ghost's past come to haunt them. #questpit #PN #Q

THE GHOST-BIND
November 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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lilyfeldhus.bsky.social
The darkness Jelena sees in Dominic’s soul terrifies her but she can’t deny the pull of desire.
Her touch might free the nightmares chained to him, but blanket the world in chaos.
When a banished evil returns for him, they must surrender their secrets & hearts to defeat it.
#questpit #W #A #PR #R
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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nebauthor.bsky.social
🧠Nature, 🫀self, and 🫁breath. All 3 souls pay the price of violence 🗡️. Can Veera use her healing magic to restore them before her mother is lost in the cage of her deteriorating mind?

#F #RF #W #A #questpit
November 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM