BILLY WONKRA Sugar High

Billy Wonkra never meant to taste the Shadow Sugar. It happens in a moment of curiosity—one shimmering crystal of midnight‑blue candy drifting through the crooked lane like a firefly. When it touches his tongue, the world detonates into colour. The cobblestones melt into syrup. The streetlamps stretch into towering caramel spires. Every sound becomes a choir of fizzing sherbet. At first, it feels like flight. But the Sugar High is not a rush—it’s a summoning. The candy realm awakens around him, alive and watching. Sugar‑dust spirits swirl from the shadows, whispering warnings in voices that crackle like popping candy. The Ghost of London appears, frantic for the first time, insisting Billy spit the sugar out—except it’s already dissolving inside him, rewriting him.