Fated by Starlight

They reached the Deadlands at sunset. The landscape was exactly as its name suggested—barren, lifeless, wrong. Nothing grew here. The […]

The Void attacked early. They were two hours from the Deadlands when the sky split open. Not over the city—directly

The Oracle arrived on the third day. Nobody had summoned her. She simply appeared at the monastery gates—an ancient woman

The decision to evacuate came suddenly. Intel suggested the Void was preparing something massive—a coordinated assault that would make the

Liana woke wrapped in silver light. Not metaphorical. Actual light—emanating from her mark, pulsing in rhythm with her heartbeat, bright

They ended up on the roof of Kaelen’s building after midnight, neither of them able to sleep. Too much adrenaline.

The attack came during training. Liana and Kaelen were in the facility’s main arena, working through combat sequences with three

Kaelen was unconscious for eighteen hours. Liana stayed by his bed in the medical wing, watching his chest rise and

The alarms started at sunset. Liana was at Kaelen’s apartment—she’d been spending more nights there than her own place lately—when

The summons came three days later. Liana was in the middle of a training session—attempting to channel power through the