With one last gulp of the drink she had in her hand, Marina began to speak for the first time since she had arrived in this strange place. But only silence filled the air when she moved her lips. She clasped at her throat, feeling the words, the confusion, the bewilderment caught in her throat

There was a single chair at the head of the table. Its crystalline structure twinkled with the chandelier lights and its ruby velvet cushions invited her to take a seat. Marina lowered herself, pausing momentarily before sitting herself down. The feast before her could feed her and three armies. Before she knew it, her hands

The doors silently crept open. The metal of the doors remained dull despite reflecting against the light of day. They glided smoothly away from each other to reveal something quite grand and magnificent. Why, the Tower had already looked large and domineering from the outside, but one could hardly imagine it would have been able

The road meandered this way and that, never seeming to lead Marina any closer to this thing named the ‘Tower’. It wasn’t as if she had picked the wrong fork in the road – there had only been one road to begin with! It felt like one of those dreams where she was endlessly walking, her