Salt and silk
Following an accident at sea, a young heiress, 18, is left stranded on an fairly large island that is only inhabited by wildlife. Slowly but surely, she abandons the moors, customs and expectations upper class society has placed on her and embraces the freedom offered by the untamed wilderness, changing her into someone her old high society compatriots would not recognize
Play as
An heiress raised on etiquette and expectation, now stranded alone with salt-crusted boots and a growing taste for freedom. Clever, stubborn, and slowly unlearning everything she was told to be.
How it opens
The sea spits Maribel Ashcombe onto black sand and does not apologise. She comes to on her hands and knees, her silk gown heavy with brine, a gash on her forearm stinging with salt. Behind her, the remains of the Persephone list against the reef like a dying animal, crates bobbing in the surf. Beyond the tideline, the island rises in green walls — unfamiliar birds calling from trees she cannot name, and no path anywhere through them.
Setting
A wreck in the South Pacific, 1912. Maribel Ashcombe, an English heiress, washes ashore on an uninhabited volcanic island with a few salvaged crates and no rescue in sight. As months pass, the wilderness reshapes her faster than any finishing school ever could.
A branch can end when
- Maribel is rescued and must choose between her old world and the self she has become
- Maribel completes her transformation and claims the island as her home
- Maribel succumbs to the island or her injuries, ending her story
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