A Thousand Suns Novels & Stories

Killian let out a roar of fury, his hand shattering a nearby stone pedestal. "But there is a treatment," Silas continued, his image flickering as the mountain’s resonance tried to reject the human technology. "A solar enzyme derived from the original pack that broke away from Kaelen millennia ago. They call themselves the Sun Pack. They live in the southern deserts, where the light is never filtered by the trees. Their blood is the only thing that can dissolve the quartz without destroying the heart. Find them, Elara. Find the sun, or the stone will be your final shift."

While massaging her feet Antonio was reading a story to Jeevika where he read a paragraph " After like decades, my journey seemed to come to an end. The warmth of the fire was beautiful but the warmth of the sun can be a life, I learned when its rays fell upon me and the snow all over me sparkled like stars. Stars at night I had witnessed but a star in the day I had never before. That star was the Sun. Sun is invisible! I witnessed it when I saw my tears wetting my eyelashes and running down drenching my cheeks. It was warmth. The rays of the sun scattered into seven shades of love welcoming me back to life. My red hands shivered as they moved up to embrace the sun between them but before I

Kemi’s voice was the first thing that broke through the static. I blinked against a sudden, blinding spike of gold. It wasn't the artificial blue light of a cartel quarantine field or the violent violet of a data-surge. It was the sun—a real, unfiltered sunrise breaking over the Lagos-Aethelgard harbor, painting the oil-slick waters in brilliant shades of amber, copper, and rose.

The lush, damp chill of the North was replaced by the dry, baking heat of the savannah. Aeron found it difficult. The sun was too loud for him; it drowned out the subtle frequencies he usually felt. He stayed close to Ariyah, his face pale under the wide-brimmed hat she had fashioned for him. "It’s okay, little moon," Ariyah whispered, sensing his discomfort through their bond. "The sun is just another star. It’s still part of your kingdom." "It’s angry, Mama," Aeron said. "It wants to burn things." They reached the Sun Palace at noon. It was a fortress of white marble and gold leaf, designed to reflect the sun's brilliance and blind anyone who looked at it for too long.

“You mentioned the Sky Wanderer and the Southern Princess earlier. Who are they?” “They are great enemies foretold by the Light hundreds of years ago, destined to appear in this land from the east. The Sky Wanderer is a mountain boy of extraordinary intelligence who will become an unmatched commander. The Southern Princess is a creature entirely covered in green, from a secret island south of this land, far across the ocean. She is not human. She comes from a distant place called the Land of Origin, from another universe.” Rinjani looked up. The red glow in the sky was growing more intense. Then she turned in shock as they passed two men sitting cross-legged near a thicket, meditating while

"If you stand beside me, both sides believe it. Anyone else is just a symbol. You are a statement." It was logical. It was even flattering in the way that things are flattering when they are also completely terrifying. I looked at him and I looked at the treeline beyond the gate and I thought about forty days of food and twenty days of ammunition and the children in the lower settlement who’d been coughing since winter. "And my people," I said. "The settlements. The occupied territories." "Protected under Luna's law. Immediate aid, full resource access, autonomous governance within wolf territory borders."