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’s no light. A cloud of dark that looms over us, showing no sign of clearing any time soon. 


I thought I’ve seen it all, everything that one can in their first eighteen years of life. Lying. Cheating. Death. Hate. Loneliness. Somehow, none of that beats the energy of this place, this Abyss. It’s all of that a hundred times over. Cruel and sickening. 


I’ve only been here for a few seconds, and I already want to leave, go back home to my family, my plants, and the friends that I made in the past month. 


But it’s impossible to leave. I’m here. We’re here, buried in some ancient morbid place not a single soul can escape from, supposedly. 


Iris and I step out of the elevator, greeted by a void. Something worse than white walls, white floors, and white ceilings. Nothing. No direction. No corners. No long hallways that seem to last forever because there aren’t any signs. There’s no floor to see. 


Chapter 38: Void (Part I)