Beacon Of Light In The Dark Sea Novels & Stories

They hadn’t understood yet: The Beacon had stopped trying not to shine. And everything that lived in the dark just turned its head.

​A spike of pain shot down my spine from my right shoulder forcing a choked gasp from my lips. I wanted to sit there in the mud and scream. ​"You stupid selfish man," I whispered as I looked down at his pale features. "I won't let you leave me alone." ​I looked over my shoulder, forcing my blurred vision to focus on the distant hill road. The storm clouds were finally parting allowing the stark light of the full moon to illuminate the treacherous terrain. High up on the ridge, tucked between the jagged black rocks a single yellow light was pulsing against the darkness. It was a beacon, a fragile promise of life in a landscape of absolute desolation.

Glass spiderwebbed across one of the panes. “What’s waking?” Mara demanded. “The reason the light was built,” Alden replied. “It isn’t to guide ships away.” Another impact. Stronger. Below the surface, a shape the size of a small island shifted, its outline illuminated briefly by lightning. A colossal eye opened—pale and luminous in the deep. Mara stumbled back. “That’s not real,” she breathed. “It’s very real,” Alden said. “And it follows the light.” The beacon flared brighter.

She was now a beacon, shining brightly amidst the encroaching darkness. And something, drawn to her light, was fast approaching.

I'm itching to turn every light off and cut out all light for anyone searching for something to guide their way here, to me. The seconds tick by until he's finished, and I slap every light switch to swamp us in darkness when he begins to stand. "Bee?" He questions me as the house falls into darkness. The silence around us stretches out only as far as Alexandra's laugh allows. She knows, god, she knows that they're coming. "Isaw lightout at sea," I whisper to Niko. "She's guiding them here. I'm sure of it!" I tell him desperately, knowing he probably won't believe me, but I need to tell him; he needs to know.

Until—suddenly—it all stopped. Silence again. My breath caught. I lifted my head. And saw it. A flicker. A light. Soft, golden—barely a thread of it in the sea of black, but it was there. A beacon. Real. Hope. My body moved before my mind did. I stumbled to my feet, vision locked on that light like a dying man clinging to his last breath. “Please,” I whispered. “Please…” I bolted toward it. Or tried to.

The moon overhead shifted behind drifting clouds. The light bled into a deep, unnatural crimson. The sailors gasped. The mercenaries whispered. Becky only smiled. “An omen,” someone murmured. “No,” Becky corrected softly, her face illuminated by blood-red moonlight. “A promise.” The ship drifted farther, swallowed by the black waves of the northern sea. And Becky Everglade’s hunt—reborn, sharpened, and untethered—began anew.

And I couldn't even think clearly to find another way to ask for help. Panic left me strangely motionless, and I soon realized that inertia allowed me to hear something moving in the back of what I immediately recognized as an endless ocean. It was definitely no help, because of the way it came, fast and bumping. A bestä enraged by a prey taking away her peace. Queen or not, I was in a sea and not a river, and there would be no way to explain myself or let the creature get close enough to recognize my soul. My soul, I remembered, that it should be shining like a lighthouse inside that dark ocean and that it served as a beacon for the eyes of the creature that came in a hurry to devour me.

Suddenly the light turned dark and she opened up her eyes in frustration but I smiled at her to help her feel better and then she tried once more and the light emitted from her palm, disintegrating the darkness. The beacon of light pierced through the thick foliage, cutting a path through the shadows. It served as a guiding star, leading us toward hope and the answers we sought. With renewed determination, we followed Rona, our footsteps guided by the shimmering light. The forest whispered around us, its secrets just beyond our grasp, but we refused to falter. Though the darkness threatened to consume us, we pressed forward, our bond unbreakable, our resolve unyielding. We were warriors of t

When he looked up again, Bianca was gone. “No!” he shouted. Samuel rushed out of the lighthouse and ran to her. But she was already gone. His broken heart played a merciless trick on him. Suddenly, a bright light enlightened the top of the building. The lighthouse came to life and shed an intensive beam of light in his direction. Samuel’s pupils shrank - he was blinded by the light, but one thing he knew for sure - this time it was not an illusion. The lighthouse resurrected from death - something or someone noticed him and maybe even noticed his pain.