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 wake up from a long dream. A nightmare, only to fall into another nightmare, where the world, this small town is being torn to pieces. Shoved into a blender and swallowed whole by the shadows, the imbalance of dark. 


It has become too much now. Behind the clouds, the sun rests unnoticed, weeping as it can’t see the wreck below it, worried for its human and Mystic earth residents. It burns, aches, like I do. What happened here? 


The farther we walk down the streets of town, the more things become unrecognizable, thrown into the fire. Only the ashes are left that scatter the ground. The ashes of loss and despair. 


“We’ve been away for just a few hours,” Iris mutters, an arm wrapped around my shoulders. “Mika, you don’t think…” 


“I don’t know what to think, Iris. Let’s just head to the hideout, yeah? Figure out what’s going on.” 


Iris nods, and we continue down the road. 


Chapter 41: Imbalance