Everything is so peaceful here. I feel weightless, like I’m floating. All the pain from before is gone, I don’t question it. There’s no point in worrying when everything’s clearly fine. It’s quiet, calm, there’s no stress, no need to rush. I’ve never felt anything like this before. The temperature is perfect, it’s not too dark or bright. Everything is perfect.

So why do I feel as if something is ...

The princess’ eyes open.

Haze can’t believe it. She shakes her head in case she is hallucinating.

She did it.

She healed Princess Aziza.

As she blinks a few times to reorient herself, Ward practically throws himself on the bed next to her.

“Aziza!” Tears freely flow down his cheeks like a waterfall, showing how close he thought she was to death just moments before.

“Ward? What’s going on?” H...

The sky bled the fifth time Silas came back to life.

He awoke in a still room, the red rain pattering against the stained windows. He laid in bed there, dazed, trying to recollect his memories. The room felt familiar, a small cramped study with maps and papers pasted everywhere like a wallpaper of clues. Faint whispers echoed off the rough stone walls, punctuated by the occasional scurrying of c...

I couldn’t help but stare straight into her eyes as she stood above me, her silvery glare sending chills up and down my spine. She twisted the knife in and out of her fingers, holding it inches from my chin. I smiled back at her, welcoming my impending death. I let out no scream as she sent the knife straight through my chest. I let out a quiet sigh and close my eyes slowly. I feel my own blood ru...

“Denise, Denise do you hear me”

I here the beeps of a machine tracking my heart beat. The smell of hand sanitizer fills the air. A doctor hover over me holding a mask to my face, by he slowly releases it. Behind him stands Ryle, with a frightful look. Yup, I died…again.

I push the doctors away and get up from the hospital bed, overestimating my legs and tripping over myself.

The doctor pick me ...

“Do you think that’s gonna do it?” I hear a voice ask. “It had better.” Another reply’s. I feel a cold liquid slide down my throat. It’s sweet, but sour. Cold ,but hot. Tasty, but bile. I blink open my eyes. There are four figures standing above me. And I slowly began to make out their features. My mothers long, blonde hair, pale skin, and blue eyes. My fathers bald head, tan skin, and gray eyes. ...

[S.C, Bloodlines. CH 7]

[Cleo’s point of view]

The city sped by in a few seconds, the mountains a moment after. Out in the forest’s only the smells passed by. Her speed was a blur, no car or human would see or feel their presence. Only one place would be safe.

Yet she’d had no time to warn her. Lexi’s mother had a very large house in the city, yet Lexi always escaped to the getaway cotta...

The mud was becoming too much for the horse. Axton could hear the driver getting nervous.

He knocked on the trap door on the ceiling, ‘I can proceed on foot!’ he called.

‘Are you sure, sir?’

The rain had given way to a dense fog, which washed away all colour from the dark landscape of the marshes. It felt like it was past midnight, yet it probably wasn’t even six o’clock.

Axton paid the driver an...

Storyline 12

The guards holding myself and Liam were too busy with the massive lightning, wind, and smoke to notice we broke free of our bonds. Smashing their faces in I tried to run to Elena's side but the cyclone of wind was too much. Giant crackles of lightning danced across the throne room floor from its center. One final one thundered out narrowly missing Anton as he stood in front of the K...

I breathed. My lungs filled with freezing cold air, the type that hurts to breathe. My chest was in agony. My ribs felt broken and my throat felt raw. I was beyond cold.

A blurred face drifted above me. With each short, cold breath it sharpened and became clearer. A woman. She looked worried.

“Oh thank god. Hello? Hello, are you ok? I’ve called an ambulance, it’s coming. Just stay still”

I smiled....