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

Aside from the book of Ancient Mystic Scripture, there are other Mystic books sitting on my parents’ bookshelf, one of them being an encyclopedia of the different species of Mystics. 


Fourteen-year-old me would steal this book from their bedroom and read it until I fell asleep every night, because I saw it as my way of meeting other Mystics, getting to know them, what their abilities are. I don’t remember how many times I read that book, but it was enough that I have a lot of the information drilled in my brain. 


Somehow, this is the type of sh*t I remember instead of test materials or what the chapter of some book was about that I had to read the night before. 


But now, now while stuck in this infinite, eternal void, all of that information about the species of Mystics—ones that are known as of circa 1832—that I digested at the age of fourteen will actually be useful to me. 


Chapter 40: Sirens