Part one of the Ball of Destiny! I don't own Timecrest, all rights belong to Sneaky Crab. Also, I don't own the Lunar Chronicles, all rights belong to Melissa Myers. I am not her, so these rock works by through that story only belong to her. This chapter or part and chapter for the story that I'm writing, that's a new idea for me when I come up with it on the fly. I thought of it before the new year. I just haven't got a chance to write it until now, and it's a great news story to start the new year. Timecrest and The Lunar Chronicles have a lot in common with each other when both have a deadly disease and both have strong geniuses. No one understands both have a sibling. They love very much and there's a lot of similarities. Let me tell you what the story is gonna be about. Especially this part. So here we go! It starts with Cinder. It starts similar to Cinder and the other stories start with the sender and are mostly all about it, and then a few chapters or parts will be about the other stories in the story canon until we lay up to Valencia. This will be a long story. But this first full half will be about Cinder and Kai and Penny and Pearl and Audrey and Aiko and all of those people in the Eastern Commonwealth and our girl Cinder, trying to heal Penny and almost succeeding, but she doesn't die, but there's more to it than that. The ball still happens, Penny is well enough, or she doesn't get sick till later, so she gets to go to the ball and dance with Kai. Cinder also still goes but supports her sister. And then Penny gets ill. And things go wrong. Penny just dances with Kai and Soda, Cinder, and the humiliation that Cinder has still happens but a little different, she'll have her younger stepsister to help her along. And then they run away and take the car that they were supposed to take to the ball, but then they run off and get into the car and run away. But I'm not gonna give too much away, we'll get into the main story plot soon. I hope you enjoy this, but that's a little bit of a demonstration or a little bit of a preview of what's gonna happen in this chapter and then the story, not this chapter but the story in particular. I hope you enjoy it. I'll see you in the prologue. I'll see you then. The next chapter will be the prologue.