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

Wounded Mystics go in and out of the med tent, and I try to tend to as many as I can, patching them up with bandages or healing them depending on their injuries. More serious ones I healed before applying bandages as they wouldn’t completely heal like they would if my parents were seeing to them. The smaller ones heal just fine without a scratch left tracing their skin. 


I move from one Mystic to the next, and as I heal them, patch them up, they tell me their stories. 


A Wolf-Shifter Mystic grew up without her true family, abandoned by her parents in these exact woods. She was soon found by a young Nymph, who I assume is Iris, and brought to the Nymph’s home for a brief time. After a year, she was given to a nice Mystic couple that the Nymph’s mom knew. 


I asked Iris about it, and she told me that she didn’t remember any of it. 


Chapter 43: My Turn (Part I)