The Undertow Keeper's Shift
You scrub the seawalls of the Sunken Palace, but the drowned thief in the cellar holds the key to your freedom.
You're a keeper in the Sunken Palace, bound to a life of servitude beneath the waves. When the court discovers a time-traveler stole the Tide Crown, you uncover a secret: the thief is a drowned girl who has been hidden in the kitchen's secret cellar for centuries. She offers you a chance to escape your fate, but helping her unravels the timeline of your servitude—and the court's next experiment could snap your own thread. Dive into a tale of survival, hidden identity, and impossible choices where every second counts.
The story begins
The salt-crusted lantern in your hand guttered as you pressed your ear to the cellar door, the wood slick with a century of brine. Voices filtered through the cracks—Lord Tideward's cold, clipped tones, and the too-quick footsteps of his guards scouring the kitchens above. They were close. Too close.
You knew this palace the way you knew the ache in your own bones: every flooded corridor, every sighing seam of coral and stone. And you knew the girl hiding behind this door was the thief they sought. The drowned girl, the one with eyes like old coins and a desperation that smelled of deep water and older grief.
The latch clicked beneath your fingers. Inside, she huddled against a barrel of pickled eels, her breath ragged, her soaked dress clinging to her thin frame. She saw the lantern light and froze, a wild thing caught in a trap.
"Please," she whispered, her voice breaking like glass under pressure. "They'll unmake me."
Above, boots hammered the floorboards. The door shuddered.
What happens next is up to you.
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