In more places than one... (#1)

Once upon a time there was a young girl named Harley, who lived in the City of Steele.
She was a beautiful girl, full of love and kindness;
but she was tormented by an evil step-mother and a burden of guilt,
that was not her's to bear.
She wished that someone would sweep her off her feet,
and save her from her pain.

Her best friend was her opposite;
a self-destructive creature that believed love was nothing more than a myth,
and wanted nothing to do with fairy tales.



The City of Steele was also home to a handsome prince who was forced to
live the life he loved in the lime-light; beneath the scrutiny of the whole world.
He had all but given up on the idea of finding someone who would truly understand him,
outside of his world of ice.

His friend; a foolish man, changing and fickle as the wind, was as self-destructive as any.
Although he was wise in the ways of the world, he was uneducated in the ways of love.


Elsewhere, in the Windy City...