The Boy in the Night - Time World

~ My life could have been better. ~

Those were the last thoughts of Riley Baxter; an amateur artist and high school student who's run away from home, ending up in a very bad place soon after. He awakens to a space that is set in a desert setting within this world holding above it, a night - time sky. Riley has no idea why he's been brought here. He finds out from one of the inhabitants of this strange place that it is run by a sentient force called The World, and that Riley has been given the title of what is known as a "Creator." In order to get back to his world and fix what he can before he wakes up from this nightmarish reality, The World cannot let Riley leave before he has completed the impossible task of creating a working socety from his newly gifted ability. The power to draw anything and everything into being with a single brushstroke. If Riley tries to leave without honoring The World's request, he will be sent back to the very first chapter of his story, and will not get to see his home again until that story has reached its final conclusion. As Riley copes with his inevitable losses, he meets others inside the World's sphere who eventually help him along the way to complete this Herculean task. Lulit; a girl from the past who claims that she was summoned by the world long ago and could never leave it since. Bast; a witty Maine Coon cat with the ability to speak as all animals can here in this world, who does not want Riley to stray from the World's plans. And Wodin, a whiny crow who clings to Lulit and does not wish to upset the World, yet does not care that Riley was chosen by the sentient force at all to foresee to its vision. With just a brush or pen stroke, Riley learns to create in his image, yet is that all he really wants to accomplish in this life without end?

Follow Riley Baxter and his story; as this teenager who loves to explore his artistic side, discovers what it truly means to find your purpose in a world is so very vast around you. That one should not wonder why their life is not as they want it to be, but what maybe it can become, instead.