Hundreds of years ago, a race of supernatural beings called Mystics and humans went to war, almost resulting in the extinction of Mystic-kind. The Council, often seen as the Gods of all Mystics, created a rule that would prevent this from occurring again-Mystics must mask as human and can't interact with other Mystics to lessen the chance of exposure. Their existence is now only ever written as myth.

Are these stories of history, passed down from Mystic parent to Mystic child true? Or is there something deeper, darker going on?

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Michaela (Mika) Corey is an eighteen-year-old Druid who lives her life pretending to be human. She's loyal to the rule, but the seclusion puts her in a box she struggles to fit into. When she meets Iris Blake, her outlook on the human world and Mystic world shifts. Mika is presented with what's true and a task that she can't refuse because the future of Mystics are at stake. 

The Divide is created by Neradia, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

THE DIVIDE

The tri-fold poster lay across the two connected desks as Iris and I stand looking over it. Empty, just a sheet of white under the ceiling lights in the classroom. 


Other groups have already started putting their final posters together. From where I am, I see one group is doing ‘Moby Dick’ and another chose ‘Dracula’ as they paste paper that they printed of the titles onto their posters. ‘The Odyssey’ seemed to be the least-liked one among the class, so I don’t think there will be a group also doing that book. 


Iris scans the outline we sketched out earlier in the process, her eyes going back and forth between the outline and the tri-fold. “We have a lot more room than we thought, Mika.” 


Chapter 19: Special