The demiurge of death sealed a fivefold promise to the universe in the hopes of being freed of their fate. Because of that, Pinocchio’s fate is placed in the hands of destruction incarnate, bending and breaking to its merciless will so that he can fulfill the demiurge’s promise. Burdened with a celestial responsibility, Pinocchio learns more about the world with each encounter, coloring his universe with a rainbow of experiences. In his quest for knowledge, he learns more and more about the wonderful things immanent in the human condition, including every shade of heavenly love paired with their grotesque shadows. With the weight of a bloodthirsty world on their clockwork heart, who will the doll place his faith in? See how Pinocchio's path to becoming human is a path composed of cruel thorns and bittersweet roses.

Blake Beaulieu begins her university life adrift, haunted by memories she cannot fully grasp and shadows she cannot fully name. As she navigates mundane conversations and fleeting friendships, fragments of the past quietly unravel—a forgotten garden, a photograph on her wall, and a girl whose smile lingers beyond memory. Bound by nostalgia and unspoken grief, Blake finds herself caught between the desire to move forward and the ache of something precious lost. In a world where absence speaks louder than presence, she searches for meaning in the echoes of the past, learning that some loves never truly disappear—they simply bloom quietly within us, like wisteria through the cracks.

"Written in the spaces between understanding and trying."