Emerging From The Haze Novels & Stories

"To rising from the ashes." Natalie clinked her glass gently. "To whatever comes next." And beneath the velvet sky, with the city once again at her feet, Natalie Evans finally felt the fire inside her burn not with rage, but with purpose.

[Present] Damien’s POV There is a green haze covering the whole clearing and the humming is getting louder, but the haze is too thick to clearly see who or what is making the sound, just a dark form in the center. I took a step in to try and get a better view, I realized very quickly I made a mistake.

Are you kidding me now mum? "She's pregnant because I got her pregnant, geez mum just quit the bizarre questions already" "Wow, I can't believe this" Craig exclaims "Who is this Emerald girl?" "Her name is Hazel, not Emerald" "So why does Craig call her Emerald?" "Oh...cuz she has charming Emerald green eyes, you'll confirm when you meet her" "So Klaus, is this Hazel the reason why you broke up with Daisy?" "No mum , Hazel has got nothing to do with that. Daisy and I were over before I met Hazel. She's my P. A" I explain and she suddenly smiles

Hazel shouted. Her vision blurred. Her heartbeat roared in her ears. The world around her twisted. The trees shifted. The air thickened. One moment she was in the forest. The next… she wasn’t. The ground beneath her changed. The scent of damp leaves disappeared. Instead, she smelled something else—smoke, ash, something burning. Hazel stumbled, falling to her knees. She touched the ground—stone, not dirt. She looked up and gasped. She wasn’t in the forest anymore.

I simply blocked him, turned off my phone, and continued sleeping. However, afterward, a frantic pounding came from the door. “Coco! Open the door!” When I heard Zach’s familiar voice, I suddenly remembered that I had forgotten to turn off location sharing. His voice was filled with fury, and my mind involuntarily flashed back to the scene of Ruby deliberately falling earlier. Had she really lost the baby? Or had he come because I sold my shares? The next second, the hotel room door was kicked open. Zach stormed in with bloodshot eyes and grabbed me, dragging me outside.

But it tasted soft and delicious. “We should be awake later, like past eleven,” Einille said after finishing her meal. Vale’s forehead crumpled, “Why so early? They said the jump-off has to be one in the morning. Don’t be too excited,” he teased. “You have seen the influx of hikers now, right? Too many! We have to be early to catch the sea of clouds and the sunrise.” Einille drank a glass of water and went on, “All right, let’s settle on past twelve.”

It was faint, nearly drowned by the wind, rising from the thick, purple-black haze clinging to the rocks just twenty feet below the ledge. Julian froze. "Did you hear that?" "Hear what?" Carl snapped, his eyes darting. "It’s just the wind, Julian. Let's go before the blight gets into our lungs." Hack. Julian ignored him. He slid down a narrow embankment to a stone shelf jutting out over the void. The mist was like acid, smelling of rot and ancient sulfur. "That’s not the wind," Julian shouted, dropping to his stomach and peering into the haze. "John? John, is that you?!"

"I am not scared now, I am ready." "Me too," he replies. "Tell me something you are looking forward to," I say. He thinks about it. "Her face," he says simply. "Whatever her face turns out to be." I close my eyes. Whatever her face turns out to be. "Same," I reply. April becomes May. May becomes the specific edge of June where everything is green and the light comes back properly and the city becomes something almost patient. We wait.

“Down!” I had my arm around Jace’s shoulders as I pushed him forward to the floor, and my other arm was around Malachi, and I gripped Levi’s jacket tightly. “Hylja sála!” Blue flames enveloped all of us as the bullets tore through the windows of the restaurant with deafening bursts.

A path glows, leading to an unseen horizon, but the void trembles, destabilizing. Aelys staggers, powerless, her twin-star eyes resolute, her voice faint. “Elara… we’ll find it.” I lie still, my essence gone, my voice silent, Cassia’s fire surging, her shout fierce. “Aelys, we’re with you!” Maddox’s shadows coil, his grunt desperate, “Void’s breaking!” Sylvara’s aura fades, her voice faint, “The path’s our only hope, Aelys.”