The world .
They say when you sit down with a pen and paper, the idea in your head, that you just need to take a deep breath and start, so here I am. To be honest I have wanted to write my story for a while now. The twists and the turns, the build up, the journey. It's hard to find a place to start. 'To write the first sentence is always the hardest' they say and I couldn't agree more but now I am past that it is time to begin.
It is not a happy story, although I am happy. My story is more about a journey and how that led me to happiness, and love, and allowed me to open up and maybe for once let someone in. This story is for me, not for you. This story is a hope that somewhere out there someone is listening. This story is a letter to me travelling hopefully through all of you and maybe when it returns I will have learnt and taught and influenced and thought provoked a few lives. This story is for me.
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My name is Alara winters. An 18 year old girl in a world very different to the one you are living in. A parallel universe with princes and princesses, wvichy and greys, ices and monsters beyond what you can understand. An exciting place to say the least and it is called Ellissima. There are 5 branches of this wonderful place; war, intelligence, royal, power and reason. Together they form the political structure. Each branch has an general, a leader of the division. The royals obviously with, in our case, a king that leads over them all. They work together to create the 'perfect' nation. An idealist fantasy in my mind but that is an unpopular opinion among most. A treasonous opinion probably.
I belong to the power sector. The general a man called Christian, he has an ego bigger than your Russia! It's a branch known for their sheer bravery and force, a branch honoured with the responsibility of overlooking the other universes. Yours, and all the others. You're not the only one.
The intelligence overlooks all new developments, technologies and improvements to our society. They supply each sector with doctors, lawers and so on. General Alfie is in charge of that sector, has the gift they say. A rare panel of power that allows him to deduct and subdue all.
War fight our battles unsurprisingly. They house prisoners as well and are in charge of the wars against both the wvichy, people that turned during the plague of darkness where a cloud formed killing off many and infecting more, and the greys an army from the west which like to cause severe problems as they follow a different religion, the religion of saint Angelo. Both are ongoing. The leader of war branch is known for being ruthless and cruel. He is called Lukas. A name feared and respected, an unusual combination.
Then we have reason, it's a peaceful sector. Not many rules or regulations. A place where you are allowed to just do what you want. Much like the society you live in. It is lead by james and provides a peaceful approach to many concepts in our kingdom. Him and Lukas have an ongoing feud. James got the place of general through default. His uncle died and he was the next living relative after the sons death. James is therefore not very peaceful nor very pacifying. When him and Lukas are in a cage room anger can be cut like a loaf of bread.
Finally the royals. The kings and queens. They overlook everything make casting statements but only really work with the generals. Ignoring the petty insignificant opinions of the people. they are rude and arrogant and although our universe is advance in many places the royal ensure power remains subjective to them and that being female is alike to a crisis of war. Our king at the moment is Jack. I've never met him, people murmur but you can't trust a passing whisper. I don't know what he is like but I know that every time I walk into the room as a woman I am doubted and every time a man does he is rewarded and that still being true is a fair reason for hate. I am a scientist in power even though I just finished school a month ago, I am cleverer than many would think. The only astrophysicist in our world. Still I have never actually met any of these leaders. I am to low down on the line for that. I mean I have met Chris. My general. He often comes down to check my work. He employed me even though I'm underage. He didn't doubt me. In our universe 19 is entry age and yet here I am at 18 shaping a little of the world we live in even if it is only a little. My life is complicated to say the least.
