The Heart-Shaped Chest : Adventure by Association: The Everternia Saga: Adventure by Association

By Zen DiPietro

Equip new adventurers. Send them out to find their way in Everternia. Sally's purpose has always been clear.

Until one adventurer treats her like a real person, rather than just a piece of interactive scenery, and opens up a whole new understanding of herself and the world around her. Life becomes a puzzle, and there's nothing Sally loves more than a good puzzle.

Can Sally Streetmonger become a real adventurer, and choose her own destiny? She has only ever known the inside of her store, but there's a growing hunger within her to find out more. To see everything.

To find adventure.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zen DiPietro
• Release date: Jun 17, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393800132

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The Heart-Shaped Chest

The Heart-Shaped Chest

Adventure by Association: The Everternia Saga

Zen DiPietro

Parallel Worlds Press

Contents

Copyright

1. The Heart-Shaped Chest

Message from the author

About the Author

Other Works by Zen DiPietro

Dragonfire Station Universe

Copyright

THE HEART-SHAPED CHEST (ADVENTURE BY ASSOCIATION, AN EVERTERNIA SERIES)

COPYRIGHT © 2019 BY ZEN DIPIETRO

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, organizations, events, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, business establishments, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without express written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations for the purpose of review.

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Cover Art by Zen DiPietro

Published in the United States of America by Parallel Worlds Press

1

The Heart-Shaped Chest

Sally Streetmonger stood patiently in front of her display of wares. Her script had reset, so she would once again go through her limited loop of interactions.

She didn’t mind. She hadn’t been designed to mind. Sometimes she envied swaggering Tilly Hightower, who got to roam the entire land of Everternia with her group of rough-and-tumble toughs. Sometimes she teamed up with adventurers and sometimes she battled them. Tilly’s loops had much more variability.

Sally, on the other hand, had never been outside of her shop. She’d never even gotten a peek outside the door. Sometimes when business was slow, she had a moment to wonder about the chaotic life that she suspected lay beyond the