Melissa--39-s Adventures -ch.1 V5- By Cosmok -

Melissa's Adventures Ch.1 V5: A Journey of Self-Discovery and Growth by CosmoK

The moment her skin grazed the parchment, a blinding white light erupted from the book. It swallowed the attic, the rain, and the darkness. A sensation of weightlessness seized her, pulling her forward, not into the room, but into the page.

Melissa leaned closer. She recognized the layout of her town, but the geography was wrong. The map showed her street, but where the old abandoned textile mill stood in reality, the map depicted a towering fortress. Where the town library sat, the map showed a sprawling labyrinth. Melissa--39-s Adventures -Ch.1 V5- By CosmoK

Because standing two feet behind her, smiling with too many teeth, was a man in a velvet suit the color of dried blood. He hadn’t been there a second ago. He held a pocket watch on a long chain, though it had thirteen hours marked on its face. Melissa's Adventures Ch