Brighter Than The Dawning Blue Novels & Stories

Dain murmured quietly, hovering a few feet away. I could tell he was giving me a moment to soak everything in, but it would take hours to scour every detail and absorb the beauty of it all. The sky was a canvas of watercolor paints, each one bleeding into the next. From this high up, I could see how they shifted and morphed, growing lighter with each passing moment, readying the sky for the brilliance of the sun. Blues and violets bled into oranges and yellows. The transition shouldn’t have been so seamless, but it was.

Chapter 82 - Epilogue Two •BRIANNA• I stirred awake, letting out a yawn as I peeled my eyes open. My eyes first drifted to the open window, and I saw that it was still dawn. The sky at dawn was a gentle wash of colors, soft pinks and warm oranges blending seamlessly into pale blues, with the faintest traces of lavender lingering at the horizon. The world outside the window was bathed in a delicate golden glow as the first light of morning filtered through, casting everything in a serene, dreamlike hue.

I smiled, grabbed her hand, and placed a kiss on it. “Why would I need to? I have you to defend me, don’t I?” Jasmine froze for a moment, staring at me blankly. After a while, just as I began to think I had ruined everything with my reckless confession, a feather-light kiss brushed my cheek. Jasmine turned away and spoke in a soft voice, “Then I guess I’ll just have to keep an eye on you from now on.” The sunlight bathed her in a golden glow, etching her into my memory as the most beautiful sight I had ever seen.

The dark blue faded, replaced by soft gold and pale pink. The city slowly came to life as dawn broke. The first light touched my hand, making the ring gleam bright and clear. I watched the sun rise, feeling the weight lift from my chest one breath at a time. Behind me, the door closed, but ahead of me, the day opened wide.

The bond blazed—gold and silver and blue, brighter than the candles, brighter than the sun. And Ravenna was crowned.

So, I continued walking and turned my head to the West. The sky in the West was still dark, meanwhile, the early dawn on the East side had already broken. A mixture of yellow and orange on the horizon beneath the dark neon blue ocean of night had begun to peek out, little by little. As the sun continuously rose, all the purple and deep blue faded away, and the sun took its might position at the top of the ocean. The beautiful sunlight, shining so very blindingly, made the vast ocean look like it was covered with millions of diamonds, sparkling here and there.

Morning Light and New Silk Raven woke slowly, the tower room bathed in the soft scarlet haze of dawn filtering through heavy curtains. The violet orbs had dimmed to near-invisibility during the night, leaving only the faint glow of the blue-flame hearth. She lay still for a moment—listening with her body to the quiet rhythm of Victoria’s stillness beside her—then slipped from beneath the crimson sheets.

he said, and the words carried more honest weight than anything he had said since the duel began. Nova's light reached its full expression, and the expansion of it across the clearing was not the burst of something that has been contained and released but the opening of something that has been present and has decided to be visible, and it moved across the space with the steady, comprehensive quality of dawn arriving, touching everything without preference and altering the quality of everything it touched in the way of light that carries something in addition to itself.

The day dawned crisp and clear. The sun poured through Prince Felix's window. Another day had dawned, bringing with it new hopes and aspirations. The light of dawn seeped into his room. There was a pearly glow in the sky. The first rays of sunlight lit up his room. The dawn chorus of melodic birdsong drifted in. The rising sun cast a rosy hue across the morning sky. Golden fingers of sunlight lit up the scene.

"It's time to wake up." A bright white light erupted from both of the women's chests, enveloping them and everything around them.