Albedo X Lumine Novels & Stories

She was just caught in the middle. “Last I checked, the Luna is the wife of the Alpha, and a beta is someone that serves the Alpha. So if I am the Alpha, then that should mean that she is my wife and you serve me.” His eyes held mine, and his smirk grew wider. The urge to smack it off his face overwhelmed me, but I knew it would only upset Selena, so I held myself back. “That’s enough, Lucian. I was on my way there, and I would have joined you even if you didn’t come up here.” Selena chipped in and tried to get Lucian to turn around and walk away, but he just wouldn’t.

"The Luminae's commitment to brightening includes a layer of radiance to the adjust of this put." Birch's eyes were taken after a Luminae as they invoked a brilliant exhibition, changing the royal residence into a kaleidoscope of colors. "And the charm of the Charmed Timberland reverberates with the enlightening soul of your individuals." The Luminae welcomed us to connect them in their home of light control, and we enthusiastically acknowledged. They instructed us how to adjust ourselves to the subtleties of light, to see the covered up magnificence within the world, and to reveal it for all to see.

Luke won’t know I’m gone if he comes looking for me. I lifted my head slightly, my voice low, like I was speaking to her even if she wasn’t there. "Everything will come back... everything will be the same again, Corinne... I promise, we will return." A few minutes passed. Then Lumi appeared in front of me. A wide smile spread across her lips, her eyes shining with victory. She stepped closer and said, "I have new information for you, Alpha Glacier." I looked at her, steady, focused. "Then tell me, Lumi... what do you have?"

In the dim, violet glow of the Glow-Lamps, their physiology was adapting to a world without sunlight. "It’s not a disease; it’s 'Adaptive-Mutagenesis'," the Union’s head physician explained to Audrey during a tour of the lower-level nurseries. "Their bodies are no longer producing the gold-resonance pigments because there’s no UV light to trigger them. Instead, they’re developing 'Tapetum Lucidum'—the same reflective layer found in the eyes of nocturnal predators. Their eyes are turning silver, Audrey. They can see in near-total darkness, but the artificial light of the lamps is starting to burn their retinas."

Beta Calian asked. Ahmik Black took another sip out of his teacup. He chuckled. "Beta Calian, the soon to be alpha of the North Lotus pack. Do you realize how powerful that title is? Why should you bother yourself about a pair of useless and insignificant females?" he asked. "Beta Calian, yes, you told me about your plan and I supported you with my full chest, I still do actually. But you never thought it important to ask me why I supported you so I in turn decided to keep my reasons for support to myself."

Robert said. "It's fine…" said Ignis. "What do you mean, fine? This is amazing! Are these also artifacts, too?" Mariana asked Robert. "Not entirely. The posts are just metal, however, the light on top is a common artifact. They said it's a lumi-… what's that word again? Basically, it's metal crafted by the rock-dwelling guys that absorb sunlight during the day and emit it during the nighttime. Pretty fancy, don't you think? I'm actually saving money to buy one for my house although that would probably take a long time," Robert said, scratching his cheeks.

A woven rug at the dais—old, intricate, glaringly tasteful—and in the center of its pattern, a tiny shimmer where sunlight pooled unnaturally, like a puddle pretending to be a mirror. Solen’s residue doesn’t blaze. It coaxes. It turns noon into a persuader. “Lumi,” I murmured. “Tell me you see the shiny stain under Kael’s boots.” She blinked. “Yep. Light’s sticking to the floor. Like honey.” “Don’t touch it,” I breathed, just as she took a curious half-step. “It’s a nudge ward. It warms the brains of the credulous.” “Gross,” Lumi said. “And efficient.”

Dawn light comes through the sanctum's single high window, small and square and positioned near the ceiling, and the light that falls through it is the clean, unmodified gold of actual morning, carrying none of the red tint that has been coloring everything since the eclipse. Lucian stands in the dust and the dawn light and the diminished glow of the hybrid power that remains, and breathes.

Kelly wondered as he reached up to push a chunk of his shaggy brown hair out of his face. He absently reminded himself to buy some twine or something tomorrow so he could tie it back. Derulo's finally looked up at kelly his silver eyes, the color of his wolf fur, and nodded. A wide grin spread across his face which left his straight, white teeth to stand out against the dark brown of his skin. "Yeah, soon," Derulo grinned wider, "but that's all you're going to get out of me, Alpha." "Fine, fine," kelly raised his large hands in surrender.

he greeted with a grim expression that flickered with pity as he glanced towards his mother on the bed. “Doctor,” Damon gasped. “How is she? Will she be fine?” he rushed to his mother’s side to look at her. She was badly hurt. Alysia felt her heart dropped to her stomach when she saw the grim expression on the doctor's face. “She’s alive,” he said, “but it’s not good.” “What is it?” Alysia asked, stepping in beside Damon. “Aconite,” the doctor said. “A heavy dose. Far worse than wolfbane.”