**_Lena had always been the one to push the limits, the one to find the edge and stare down into the abyss just to see if she could fly.

Her younger brother, Eli, was the opposite. Quiet. Cautious.

He had a way of looking at the world as though everything was a riddle, and he wasn’t sure he wanted to find the answers.

But today was different.

The sun hung low in the sky, casting a golden glow ov...

I grab my sisters hand and pull her towards the cliff edge with me. She nods slowly in my direction. Then we jump.

It’s sepember, yet we haven’t found a new place to stay. The days grow colder leading to October, we only have so long till it’s a necessity to find shelter every night, She hasn’t been doing well either since we lost her pills, she sees and hears things again. It’s already bee...

Stripped bare, the wind at their naked backs, the two girls peered downwards - past the cliff face, past the edge of the rock and into the sea below. The grey ocean crashed and swelled with great ceremony, its roar echoing into nothingness beneath a sky that threatened to open at any moment.

Jump rock, as it had always been known, was a rocky outcrop that jutted out from the headland into a deep...

Free from the chains of our parents, we flew. Hand in hand, we finally saw the world for what it is. She look at me as the wind morphed our faces. My skin went numb from the cold air. We had each other, until the end....

The sun was setting over the horizon, casting an eerie orange glow over the rugged cliffs that overlooked the crashing waves below. My heart raced as I glanced back at the tree line, knowing our pursuers were hot on our trail. My sister, Lily, stood beside me, her eyes wide with fear as she clutched my hand tightly.

"We have to jump," I said breathlessly, my voice barely above a whisper. Lily nod...

I have to kill her.

It’s not my choice, it’s the law. But the law doesn’t say I can’t die with her.

Since the day we were born as identical twins, I knew I would have to kill my sister on our 18th birthday, it’s just how it was, how it always had been. Being born an identical twin was simply against the law, because no two people could be exactly alike, according to the Regime that the Grand M...

Wind rushes against my face as I refuse to let the wind take my sister. I pray to every Olympian that we’ll survive.

Luckily, black scales and sharp teeth whizzed by before coming to our rescue and bringing us safely to the ground, our enemies still on the cliffs, hundreds of feet above.

I thanked the dragon and she flew away as my sister and I made our way through the woods, hoping we’d never ...

As we feel the wind rushing past us, I think about how freeing it feels. The complete weightlessness, all the stress and pressure melting away. I feel no fear. There is only relief as the water rapidly approaches. Finally we will be set free. I send a prayer to the goddess to guide us home.

When we hit the water I have a flash of pain and then nothing. From that height thankfully it was quick, hop...

We fall and fall. We fall so long it feels like we’ll never reach the portal in the water below us. God I hope Lahyr was right about this magic stuff. He has to be right. Right?

Finally, we hit the water, or the portal? I’m not sure if it’s one or the other or both at the same time, but whatever it is, we hit it. As soon as I hit it my body feels warm, then cold, and I feel electricity zing my s...

At first, it doesn’t quite hit me—the extent of the damage that will come from our actions. For a moment, as I look out at the beautiful landscape, brightened by the moon’s warmth, with a cinematic rush of trees calmly bristling in the wind, it feels as if time has stood still. There’s a lightness in this experience that I haven’t felt before, like the air brushing softly behind my ears. I wonder,...