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

I watch as my parents’ car comes down our street, out of my view once it goes by the house next to ours. We don’t really talk with them, the people in the next house over, or any of our neighbors. But there are nights where I’m on the roof and their youngest son, maybe five or six, waves at me from their bedroom window. I wave back. 


They’ve only lived there for about a year. 


And I can see this kid believing in the rumors about Sacred Pines playground, as most kids do. He probably first heard it in school or spread around by other kids his age in the neighborhood. Has he ever gone to the playground? The woods? 


I slide my blanket back through the open window before leaving the roof. I don’t get the chance to close it, hearing the front door and my parents calling out to me that they’re home. 


Chapter 32: Truth