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

There will always be that one point in someone’s life where they feel the world is falling to pieces, where doubt settles in and takes over, where they’re at a complete loss and nothing can fix it. They’re pushed into a corner and don’t know how to act. Either way they go will turn out with a negative outcome. 


I didn’t think I would come upon this day now as a lonely teenage girl that doesn’t know what’s real and what isn’t while she stands in a whole other realm, surrounded by pure light despite there not being any windows nor artificial lighting. But, hey. What do I know? I’ve barely even lived. Kept in the shelter by my parents, kept enough that I don’t even know my own truth. 


That doesn’t matter right now. Nothing else matters right now. 


Chapter 36: Haunts