CATCHING SMOKE | synopsis up

❝You don't fade from within my mind; it's a flaw
That I dwell on each moment, cling to you
Like smoke escaping my fingers while the candles burn them raw.❞
- Sreesha Divakaran, Those Imperfect Strokes

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If there is one thing that Ivypool has learned, it's that you can't catch something that's not there. For the last few moons, she's had her head in the past, missing out on the end of a war. Her dreams consist of death, and sacrifice, and blood, and something far worse that she can't explain. Yet, the universe spins on... until the moment it doesn't anymore.

Here is one thing Ivypool knows: there are alternate universes out there. Realities parallel to hers. Ones that StarClan has kept hidden. There are some that are dangerous, some oh so similar to our own, and some that shouldn't be considered possible.

Here is something else she knows: when Hawkfrost died, parts of him were sent spiraling into these universes. Here's the problem, though - war is coming, something that promises to desecrate all realities, if Ivypool doesn't find him. Because, for some stupid reason, fate would have it that one of these parts holds the key to sealing these universes and keeping this war from coming to her.

She can definitely do this.

She just has no clue that these parts of him aren't just him, they're so much more.