Thresholds of the Self
In a world suspended between two eternal seasons — Shadowbloom (eternal twilight winter) and The Frozen Bloom (a stillborn spring) — a young woman named Lyra is born divided: half of her body is blooming, the other withering. Marked from birth by an ancient prophecy, she embodies the shifting balance between memory and forgetting, between being and unbeing.
Through a spiritual and sensory journey, she must cross seven “Thresholds of the Self,” each represented by inner and outer landscapes, to choose what she wants to become — or let go of.
Chapter I: The Stillborn Garden
Lyra is born in a petrified field where flowers never wilt, but never grow. Ancient hands pull her from the soil — half-alive, half-dust.
Chapter II: The Mask of Balance
As a teenager, Lyra is forced to wear a golden mask over half her face — to hide her unstable, blooming nature. She grows up in a city where no one is allowed to reveal duality.
Chapter III: The Mirror Grove
She discovers a sacred grove where each tree reflects a possible future. But each choice erases another version of herself.
Chapter IV: The Devouring Sky
A storm tears the sky open and rips away part of her blooming body. She learns she must unlearn certain emotions to move forward.
Chapter V: The Child of Ashes
In a desert of burned memories, she meets a child version of herself offering her a still-intact flower — a hope she forgot.
Chapter VI: The Unbecoming
She accepts to let half of her body — the one that carried others’ memories — die, so she may exist only by her own will.
Chapter VII: The Becoming
Lyra is reborn, neither woman nor flower, but a voice of balance, guardian of the fragile thread between opposites. She crosses the final threshold and becomes Keeper of the Suspended Worlds.
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