For sixteen years, Selestra Somniatis has been trapped in a castle on the Floating Mountain, preparing to take her mother’s place as King Seryth’s right hand. Tied by blood to steal souls for the immortal King of the Six Isles, the Somniatis Witch foretells the deaths of participants in the Festival of Predictions. To outrun your fate is to save your soul and steal the King’s immortality. But if you die, your soul is forfeit. And though thousands have tried, nobody has ever beaten death.
As a soldier in King Seryth’s army, Nox Laederic is an unlikely candidate for the Festival, but he has no plans to die at the hands of the King or his witches. His plan is more akin to violent revenge: steal the King’s immortality and kill the entirety of his court, starting with Selestra herself.
But when Selestra touches Nox in her very first prediction, she sees her own death alongside his–their fates are unmistakably intertwined, and Selestra is no longer safe in the only home she’s ever known. Nox and Selestra will have to enter a turbulent alliance in order to survive long enough to free the Six Isles from King Seryth’s clutches and escape the new fate that hunts them.
A completely self-indulgent doodle of some of my old high school OCs. Pippin is a mermaid, on the run from her queen, and stranded on land with more complications than just learning how to walk. Austin is a prince with absolutely no desire to do anything but sail the world and live his life his own way.
I swear these ocs were long before To Kill a Kingdom was a book that existed, but it is definitely responsible for these characters making their resurgence! Definitely recommend it if you want a fun fantasy with a great romance, and cool mermaids.
in my heart, I am as wild as the ocean that raised me / technically, I’m a murderer, but I like to think that’s one of my better qualities / how strange that instead of taking his heart, I hope he takes mine / some people burn so brightly, it’s impossible to put the flames out / everyone is a blank canvas, waiting to be filled with the colour of discovery / and the ocean, calling out to us both. a song of freedom and longing
