🦊 Lu: A Story of Connection
A story for the sensitive souls.
Hi everyone,
Starting today, I'm launching something completely new for me: my first fantasy story, told as a weekly multimedia series.
Every Friday for the next nine weeks, we'll walk together through a world where sensitivity is tested, gentleness is challenged, and connection battles division. But first, I need to be honest about why this story exists.
I've been feeling anxious about the state of our world. Watching the news fills me with a heaviness that feels overwhelming. Reading headlines makes me cranky (hateful, even) and I don't like the person I'm becoming when I let that darkness in. I find myself struggling to look at all this division and fear with love, which is who I've always tried to be.
So I made a choice. Instead of letting the world's current state harden my heart, I'm bringing these conflicts with me on a journey. If you want to join me, we'll have an adventure wrapped in literature, music, and beautiful illustrations.
🦊 Lu is the story that emerged from my choice to be kind, despite the darker thoughts that come first. She's a mystical creature navigating a world that has forgotten how to be gentle—a Keeper of Thresholds whose land has been shattered by forces that profit from division and fear. Now she must choose: harden herself to survive, or find a way to remain true to her nature while everything around her crumbles.
If you've ever felt like you were born with one layer of skin missing, if you've wondered whether your sensitivity is a gift or a curse, this story is for you.
This is my first venture into fantasy, but it's not really about magic. It's about what it means to be a sensitive soul in turbulent times. It's about the courage it takes to stay open when everything tells you to close, and discovering that sometimes the most radical act is simply refusing to let the world make you cruel.
What to expect
🦊 Lu's Story will unfold over nine chapters, each one a step deeper into her journey of loss, discovery, and hope. Every chapter will include original music and artwork: a complete multimedia experience that brings Lu's world to life.
I'll be publishing new chapters every Friday, giving us both time to sit with each part of Lu's journey before moving forward. This story deals with displacement, the attack on empathy, and the systematic destruction of beauty. But ultimately, it's about choosing love in a world that's forgotten how to connect.
A world between worlds
Lu exists in the Between-Space, caught between the mystical realm of her birth and the harsh reality where she now finds herself. She has the body of a fox with powerful dragon wings that shimmer with aurora colors. Where she steps, luminescent flowers bloom, but they fade faster in this new world, wilting under skeptical gazes and harsh lights.
She's searching for her scattered family, but more than that, she's searching for proof that gentleness can survive in sharp places. That her sensitivity isn't a weakness but a different kind of strength.
Meet Lu though music
As I imagined Lu's world and brought her characters to life through illustration, melodies began emerging alongside the visuals. I found myself writing lyrics that capture the essence of the characters, their hopes and heartbreaks.
Using AI, I've transformed these lyrics into songs. They're not perfect: I’m not a musician, not even close. Some words get lost in AI gibberish, but they carry the soul of the story in ways that words on a page cannot. This is Lu's world asking to be born as a complete experience: visual, emotional, musical.
Below is Lu's ballad, the song that started it all. Let her voice guide you into the world we're about to explore together.
🎧 Lyrics: The Story of Lu
Aurora wings and silver script A fox who left flowers where she walked The Deep Groves fell to manufactured fear Now she moves through landscapes drained of color This is the story of choosing tenderness When the world rewards only hardness Of building bridges from stubborn hope While others profit from the gaps between us If you've ever been called naive For believing connection heals Lu proves that compassionate strength Can transform what seemed broken beyond repair This is the story of choosing tenderness When the world rewards only hardness Of building bridges from stubborn hope While others profit from the gaps between us This is Lu's story But it's also ours Her flower-light reminds us That even in darkness, beautiful things choose to grow Sometimes the most radical act Is refusing to let the world make you cruel
🦊 Join me
If Lu's story resonates with you, I invite you on this journey. Let's explore together what it means to tend the spaces between fear and hope, to build bridges instead of walls, to keep our hearts soft while staying strong.
Maybe, by the end of this adventure, we'll both remember how to look at our broken world with love again.
To all my fellow sensitive souls, mystics, creatives, and bridge-builders: this one's for us. ✨
With love and light,
Lilian
I am astonished at your imaginal journeying..
You're a genius!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You're a GENIUS.