Dream Sketcher
[WSA ENTRY 2025]
Dreams can be deadly. Art can be a weapon. And love? Love is the most dangerous masterpiece of all.
Arwyn Delacroix never knew his mother. All he has are the fragments of her life.
A journal filled with sketches of sunsets she’ll never see, laughter she’ll never share, and a love letter to a son she’d never hold. And then there’s the gift his father left him: the power to bring his darkest fears and brightest hopes to life with the stroke of a pencil.
Raised by a father who drowns his grief in silence, Arwyn aches to close the chasm between them. But every sketch he creates pushes him further into Terra Incognita, a world where not just his father's, but countless of other artists bleed into reality, and nightmares wear the faces of people he loves.
But there were others that were present in this world. Kingdoms, landscapes, allies, friends, discovery.
When his father hires a housekeeper, Arwyn finds an unlikely ally.
A boy made of ink and memory, a living sketch who claims to know the truth about his mother’s death. Together, they unravel secrets his family buried: a warning about the cost of creation, enemies who crave Arwyn’s power, and the haunting truth that every stroke of his pencil steals a piece of his soul.
But as Arwyn tries to fight to save his father from grief in both worlds, he begins to see himself in the monsters he fought. The line between artist and art almost fades. The boy in the mirror feels less like Arwyn and more like a stranger wearing his face.
And so, he must choose:
Become the weapon his enemies fear, or hold onto the boy his mother loved.
In a world where imagination shapes reality, the greatest danger isn’t losing his life.
It’s losing himself.
