What I wouldn't have given for a staircase in a chest or a doorway in a cupboard and ...well, I'm certain there's a third one.🤔

What boring thing was I doing at age 12? I distinctly remember watching Beethoven and wanting a Saint Bernard desperately.  I think I might have had artistic aspirations at the time. So average stuff. Now look at these kids from the Moors. 12 years old and serving Vampire Lords - abandoning twin sisters to travel with mad scientists and stepping into old chests that have staircases to other worlds in them.  Feels like I missed out🧐

Plot/Storyline/Themes:

Big haunting energy in a quiet war between a vampire landlord and a necromancing doctor. Life vs death and all that.

Two Sentences, A Scene or less - Characters:

Behold! My song:
🎵Jack and Jill both made of steel
but Jack is way more colder.
The Twins first died
The came back alive
To be raised by separate monsters
Jill stayed back
While Jack made plans
And Jill couldn't tumble after🎶
Heheh...well I tried okay.

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene:
An eery sight:
The inkeeper and his wife, (The Choppers) making their way uphill to the wagon, dragging a corpse with them while the wife screams like a banshee. And finally, Charles Chopper buys a storm.

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
🖤 “She learned to heal by learning to harm, and under the watchful eye of the Moon, they were both the
same." (Jack will go far)
🖤 “The Wolcott twins had started from the same place. They had never once been the same.” (It's like that sometimes. Blood is just liquid in some bonds)
🖤 “The Moors were a place of delicate balances, every
principality held by two monsters of equal power and
opposing dispositions” (this just makes me want to go to the Moors more)

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts:
■ Abbey of the Drowned Gods and their Sinking Town
■ Monster of Day vs Monster of Night
■Living-Dead Twin Sisters
■It's  ALIVE! ... Reanimation.

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