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Those Little Things
Kael didn’t go to breakfast.He couldn’t stand the noise. The clatter. The laughing. The normal.Normal felt like a lie now.Instead he sat by the lake behind the training grounds — the one with still water that held the sky like it didn’t trust anyone else to keep it safe. He hugged his knees to his chest, chin resting on his arms, watching dawn light ripple on the surface.His reflection flickered. For a moment, the water didn’t show him at all — only black flame curling like ink in water.He blinked.Gone.Maybe he was imagining things. Maybe exhaustion was chewing holes in his mind. He hadn’t slept, not really, but he didn’t feel tired. He felt wired. Like something humming inside him wouldn’t shut off.Like the fire had a heartbeat.And it was waiting.He dragged a stone across the surface. The ripples shimmered… and whispered.It wasn’t an accident.His mother’s voice, soft and breaking.Kael squeezed his eyes shut hard.It hurt to remember her face.It hurt worse to think he mi
Shadows In The Quiet
Riven did not sleep that night.He sat in his quarters, elbows on his desk, staring at the slow curl of steam rising from a cup of tea long gone cold.His magic hummed quietly beneath his skin, sharp and restless. Not angry—just awake. Alert. It had been ever since the runes on the temple ruins flared yesterday. Ever since Kael touched them.And ever since Riven felt that pulse — that ancient note vibrating through the air like a chord struck across worlds.He had felt it once before.On a battlefield, surrounded by screaming and fire.He shut the memory out before it could drag him under.A soft knock broke the silence.Orien’s voice came through, calm but clipped. “You’re still awake.”Riven didn’t turn. “You are too.”The door slid open. Orien stepped inside, robes soft and pale in the faint dawn light. Tired shadows sat under his eyes.“You sensed it?” he asked quietly.Riven’s jaw tightened. He didn’t need to ask what it was.“Yes.”Orien’s breath left him like he had hoped—deepl
Eyes In The Quiet
Kael woke before the sun.Not suddenly — not with panic or a gasp — but the way a person does when they’ve been lying still for hours, caught between sleep and thinking, waiting for morning to save them.His room was dim, pale dawn smudging the window. His blanket felt too heavy, like someone had draped stone over his chest in the night. Sweat clung to his skin, though the air was cold.He didn’t remember dreaming.He only remembered… being watched.That prickle at the back of the neck.That sensation of something standing just behind you in an empty room.That breath you don't hear, but your bones swear is there.He pushed up slowly, rubbing a hand across his face. His fingers brushed damp hair, and his pulse jumped.How long had he been awake without realizing it?He glanced around the dorm — same narrow bed, same small desk, same cracked ceiling tile he kept meaning to fix. Everything was in place. Quiet. Ordinary.Nothing was wrong.Except everything was.He swung his legs down, f
A Shadow Stirs
Far from the Academy — beyond mountains carved by old magic and rivers that remembered blood — night rolled over the Wastes like a living thing.Nothing grew here. Nothing dared.The ground cracked in jagged scars, as though something beneath had clawed at the world and nearly broken free long ago. The sky was bruised, stars swallowed by thick, restless clouds.And in the center of that desolate stretch stood ruins — the bones of an ancient fortress, broken towers jutting like teeth from the earth.For years, they had been silent.Tonight, they breathed again.A ripple — thin as a whisper — passed through the air. The dust stirred, lifting in slow spirals. Cracks glowed faintly as if embers waited beneath the stone.Then a voice, low and cold, cut through the stillness:“Sixteen years… and at last, the spark awakens again.”Footsteps sounded across the broken courtyard — soft, deliberate. A figure cloaked in black walked among the shattered pillars, shadow trailing like liquid smoke.
Bridging The Gap
Riven Veredon didn’t sleep, not really. He existed between breaths, between hours — in the space where responsibility and regret tangled and suffocated.Dawn bled gray light through the tower windows as he stood overlooking Kael’s dorm from afar. He had felt it the moment the boy’s fire surged — the pulse, dark and sacred, like a heartbeat carved into the world itself.Shadowfire.For the first time in sixteen years, it stirred openly.And the world would feel it soon.His jaw tightened. “Too soon,” he murmured to the empty chamber. “He’s not ready.”A quiet knock sounded.Riven’s spine straightened. “Enter.”The door swung open, cold air sweeping in — and with it, High Consul Sereth. Silver hair coiled tight, eyes sharp as a blade hidden in velvet. She did not bow.She rarely did.“You felt it too,” she said, voice smooth but striking. “The flare.”Riven did not look away from the window. “I did.”“Another incident from your… apprentice.”Her tone disguised nothing. Concern. Pressure
When The Veil Trembles
The tremor didn’t stop at one. It came again — stronger. Windows rattled. The ground beneath the academy split with faint, glowing lines, spiderwebbing across the courtyard stones. Students poured out of the dorms in panic, shouting, clutching each other as alarms blared through the air. Kael stumbled, catching Lyra before she fell. “What’s happening?” she shouted over the noise. He didn’t answer. He couldn’t. The same pulse that had come from the gate was now inside his chest, syncing with his heartbeat. It felt like the world itself was breathing with him — and he hated it. The academy’s wards flickered. For a brief, terrifying second, the protective barrier that shimmered above the walls went completely dark. Then it came — a sound that wasn’t thunder. A deep, echoing roar that seemed to rise from under the ground. Lyra’s hand tightened on his arm. “Kael, we need to get to Riven—” But Kael was already moving. In the council chamber, chaos reigned. Books and crystal lense
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