Mechanical Era: The Bluebird of the Apocalypse

*A note before we begin: I'm trying out a new genre (hides face)

*There are tons of foreshadowing and a mountain of worldbuilding, but everything will be explained properly. Almost every detail has a history or a deeper meaning, so readers who enjoy digging into a story can let their imaginations run wild and uncover it all.

*And then there's this: the author isn't very clever, the author isn't very clever, the author isn't very clever (it's important, so I'll say it three times). If you think the writing is bad, I'm truly sorry (bows repeatedly). Wishing you all an early Happy New Year!

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Beneath the fortress in this foreign land.

[Only life endures forever.]

Maurice Maeterlinck, The Blue Bird

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*Set in a large-scale, immersive VR holographic online game

*One-on-one romance, happy ending, an imaginative story told in a serious style. All in all, it might be a little strange. It should be a weird book. I really don't know how to write a blurb, and here's the voice of someone who has gotten zero points for summarizing passages for years (kneels meekly)

Old blurb, saved on 2021.6.21

*The temporary cover is a hand-drawn copy of a background painting from the artbook Kusanagi IV. I cropped the right half of the image. If I remember correctly, it was from FF8 (I'm broke QAQ. I'll find an artist to replace it next month.)

Theme: Working together to build a beautiful home.