Imagine going to your dream world, living with pure joy, feeling light and fulfilled - and then being shoved right back into your own life without so much as a warning or a chance to say goodbye. That's Cora and I feel her pain! She was right there with merfolk and I'm bawling.

Plot/Storyline/Themes:

I curse that whirlpool that pulled Cora out of the Trenches in the first place. So unfair. Life is unfair.

Two Sentences, A Scene or less - Characters:

I just want to hug Cora. Dear sweet girl, I know the effects of disordered eating. Dieting at age 8😯 Poor kid.

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene:
Oof- Cora heading to the Whitethorn Institute:
Cora dear, any place that makes it their job to convince you that The Doors and all the worlds behind them were nothing but a figment of your imagination is just ...insidious.

So, of course it's going to look like a threatening ominous inwscqpable place - because it is exactly that.

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
🖤 “I got lost, and so I went where the lost things go” (Antoinette on the Nonsense World)
🖤 “The Moors made monsters. Cora was already a mermaid. She didn’t want to wake up one day as something worse” (Those pesky Drowned Gods)
🖤 “Divinity is a terrible thing, and we try to avoid of f ending it when we can.” (Eleanor on the Gods )

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts:
■ The Doors: Trenches, Moors, Halls of The Dead, Nonsense, Confections
■Eleanor's Chandelier made from her own tears
■Eleanor's Stable Door
■ The Drowned Gods
■Serpent of Frozen Tears
■The Whitethorn Institute
■Antoinette: The Finder

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