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THE FRACTURED VEIL

Author: Haily Scott
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-06 23:04:09
The warehouse was dead silent.

Only the echo of Lila’s breathing filled the darkness, each inhale sharp, each exhale trembling. The dust still hung in the air like smoke from a war long over. Sparks flickered across the concrete where the clash had ended moments ago, their light reflecting in her eyes—eyes that no longer looked fully human.

Red lightning still pulsed faintly through her veins.

Harper was quiet.

Too quiet.

Lila wiped a streak of blood from her lip, her hands trembling.
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  • CHAOS COLLEGE    THE COST OF CHOOSING

    There was no ground.No sky.No sound.Just falling.Maeve couldn’t tell if her eyes were open or closed. The darkness wasn’t absence — it was pressure. Thick. Suffocating. Alive.And she was not alone.A pulse echoed through the void.Thud.Thud.Thud.A heartbeat.Not hers.His.“Cade!” she screamed into the darkness, her voice swallowed whole.Then—Light split the void.Not gold.Not shadow.Both.Like a lightning strike tearing through night.Maeve hit solid ground hard, the impact ripping the breath from her lungs. She rolled, coughing, vision spinning ——and froze.She was standing in a fractured version of the labyrinth.But this time it wasn’t mirrors.It was glass suspended midair like broken stars.Each shard reflected a different version of Cade — not static memories now.Moving.Breathing.Arguing.Fighting.Some of the reflections were golden-eyed and fierce, their bodies glowing faintly.Others were darker — taller, distorted, eyes fully consumed in black.They were cir

  • CHAOS COLLEGE    SHATTERED TRUTHS

    Maeve froze, her pulse hammering so violently she thought the stranger could hear it. The light from the broken ceiling above flickered over a face she never expected. Someone who should have been on her side—someone she trusted.“Why…” she breathed, words catching in her throat. “…why are you here?”The figure smiled—cold, practiced, and void of warmth. “Because you weren’t supposed to find out. But you did. And now… everything changes.”Her stomach twisted. Something about the way they said it—the calm, deliberate way—the world seemed to tilt. She wanted to scream. She wanted to run. But her feet were frozen.The stranger stepped closer. Every movement calculated. “You’ve been meddling for far too long, Maeve. Your curiosity… your defiance… it was bound to end like this.”“No,” Maeve whispered. “I trusted you. I trusted you!”The stranger’s eyes narrowed. A flicker of amusement crossed their face, but it vanished as quickly as it appeared. “Trust is a luxury, Maeve. One you can’t af

  • CHAOS COLLEGE    THE VIOLENCE CONFRONTATION (1)

    The moment the door slammed behind her, the air shifted.Too still.Too cold.Too wrong.She didn’t need to turn around to know she wasn’t alone anymore.“I was wondering when you’d finally stop running,” a voice murmured from the shadows.Her pulse snapped tight. She forced herself to inhale, to steady her shaking hands. She hated that he could smell fear. Hated that he had spent so long feeding on it.But she didn’t turn around.Not yet.“You followed me,” she said, keeping her tone level even though her throat threatened to close.“No,” he said softly. “I waited.”Her stomach dropped.That meant he knew.Everything.The file she found.The betrayal she uncovered.The truth she wasn’t supposed to see.He stepped forward, the dim light catching the sharp line of his jaw and the cruel smirk stretching across his mouth.“You weren’t supposed to look through that drawer,” he said. “And you definitely weren’t supposed to connect the dots.”“I didn’t connect anything,” she lied.He laughe

  • CHAOS COLLEGE    THE FRACTURED SOUL

    For a heartbeat, Maeve couldn’t breathe.The thing crawling out of the mirror wasn’t Cade.Not his essence.Not his fire.Not his stubborn, furious, beautiful humanity.This version stepped onto the void-floor with fluid, precise movements—like a puppet whose strings were pulled by something ancient. His smile stayed perfectly in place, unchanging, wrong.The reflection drifted beside him, pleased.“We built him from the pieces he hates the most,” it purred. “Obedience. Emptiness. Silence.”Mirror-Cade lifted his head, gold eyes muted, expression smooth and unnatural.“Maeve,” he said in a soft echo. “Come. With. Me.”Maeve’s skin crawled.“No,” she whispered. “You’re not him.”The reflection clucked its tongue.“He will be. Once the real one breaks.”Maeve’s stomach twisted.“Where is he?” she demanded. “Where’s the real Cade?”The reflection’s grin sharpened.“He’s in the heart of himself, girl. And he’s losing.”All around them, the mirrors flickered—each showing Cade in different

  • CHAOS COLLEGE    THE LABYRINTH OF HIM

    Cade’s eyes—one shimmering gold, the other drowning in ink—locked onto Maeve with a force that nearly buckled her knees.The dual voice echoed through the mirror-realm, warped and layered:“Maeve… choose.”His breath hitched, his body trembling as if two worlds were fighting inside him.Maeve didn’t move.Couldn’t.Her fingers tightened around the glowing shard until the heat burned her palm. She forced herself to breathe, even as the labyrinth around them shuddered like a living beast.“I’m not choosing,” she whispered, voice breaking but steady. “Not yet.”For a heartbeat, nothing happened.Then—Everything happened.The mirrors flared with blinding white light.The ground tremored.The air split with a sound like cracking bones.Cade inhaled sharply and staggered backward, hands flying to his head as if someone else had seized control of his skull.A dozen versions of his voice erupted from the mirrors at once:“NO—”“Don’t—”“Maeve—run—”“Choose—NOW—”The shadows inside every mirr

  • CHAOS COLLEGE    REFLECTION WAR

    The black wave exploded toward Maeve with the force of a collapsing world.Maeve barely had time to cross the shard in front of her before the shadows struck like a hurricane. The blast hurled her backward. Her shoulder slammed into the wall, pain blooming like fire up her arm. But she didn’t drop the shard. She couldn’t.Cade was lying behind the reflection.Unmoving.Breathing — barely.If she fell here, Cade would never rise again.The reflection materialized through the smoke, each step slow, deliberate, mocking. Its feet didn’t touch the ground like a person. It hovered — drifting with the weightless grace of something that never belonged to the human world.“You’re still alive,” it said, disappointed. “Annoying.”Maeve forced herself upright. “You won’t take him.”The reflection’s smile grew wider, stretching Cade’s features into something horrifying.“But I already have.”It blurred forward — a streak of darkness. Maeve dodged on instinct, rolling across the broken floor. The r

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