Nihil Novi Sub Sole Novels & Stories

The voices intensified as a beam of light lit up Jeremy on a higher stage. The rhythm he played started soft and slow but little by little the drums intensified. When the symbols crashed, a platform rose onto the stage with Kyung Jiho on it. Hae Mina grinned when she saw the white slivers light up under the black lights. On the back of Kyung Jiho's shirt was his name and on the arm was the Nightide emblem. The drum's symbols crashed and the next instrument joined. One by one, Nightide appeared on the stage with their parts. Hae Mina knew this was not her song to come in on because she had never been given a part.

And then. The doors began to open. A hush fell across the grand hall like snowfall. The Elders stepped forward, their robes whispering against stone, the ceremonial scroll in hand. “On this night,” the head Elder intoned, voice echoing through the space, “we bear witness to the union of blood and bond. Of old power, and new rise. The return of the Winters… and the crowning of the Queen Luna.” Applause didn’t erupt. No cheers. Just silence, reverent, powerful.

“Niall, I had that trio tracked. Their scent checks out. Give me the name of the male who moved into the ruins and I’ll have my wolves sniff him out too. Call Rafe, have his rangers do rounds around the Pack Quarter so they can check his markings.” “His name is Johnson Whitmoor, previously from the Moonreach Coastlands, unmated, dark hair and blue-gray eyes. Zuberi has already taken a noticeable liking to him.” “Noticeable? Zuberi is into males, Niall,” Lieli said. “This paranoia is going to get us killed. I didn’t expect the body of that wolf maiden would be floating around in the sacred lake beside our town. You said the water would dissolve her. How the fuck did that happen?”

Hanson moves forward while commanding to others, “Release her!” When no one listens, he moves to do it himself. “Hanson, stop!” His body obeys as his mind churns, his heart burns, and his eyes yearn to follow through with the task. The Alpha Female. “COME BACK TO ME!” Hanson straightens as his body obeys a call the rest of him wishes to ignore. As he comes to stand next to his new female, he watches Jezebel and pleads for forgiveness and offers false promises of freeing himself from his Alpha Female with his eyes. Jezebel closes her eyes before looking straight ahead. That was the last time she looked at him. The thin silver thread grows even weaker from the final betrayal. He was going to s

"I won't let them harm us." Aunt Cleo's voice sliced through the air like a warning bell, her words laced with urgency and gravity. "Aqua, you need to grasp the true threat of the coven. They're not just ordinary casters. Each possesses unique abilities, ranging from unnaturally swift regeneration and inhuman strength to the sinister power to manipulate creatures and even people, turning them into spies. Some even boast of an unnerving form of immortality, extending their lives far beyond the natural order. And worst of all, they have the terrifying capability to absorb the powers of other casters."

"To avoid an outright war, we left some people behind and the remaining Viedanise also went into Hibernation in this place. The plan was to wait out the outcry. People always forget after some time after all. Once the situation calmed down, our descendants were supposed to raise us from Hibernation and my job was to guard the tombs until then. But a few years later, things degenerated from just outcry to mob actions. All orchestrated by the house of Zote which has also gone into hiding." "Since you were always here guarding the tombs, how did you know?" Ryan asked without thinking. His words annoyed Madam Su but she just glared at him and continued. "Since back then, it's been millennia and

I was staring at the tiled floor, heart thudding louder than I liked. This was it. The window. I needed to plant something. Just enough to see if Max would bite. I waited until he was very engrossed on his phone before standing and moving a few steps away, just far enough to make it seem like a private call, but close enough for him to hear if he wanted to. I pressed my phone to my ear and spoke into the quiet, pretending to speak to an art gallery manager. “Hi, yes, this is Lila Bennett from Sinclair Enterprise. I’m following up on the availability of the Visage & Void collection, the oil paint pieces with the cityscape overlays?”

Aria didn’t speak. Cassian did. “Where?” Nova pulled up the map. The floor plan populated in real time a ghost-level schematic only accessible through root server keys. The signal was coming from a level below the lowest operational zone. A space not listed in employee directories. Not marked on blueprints. Not even logged in the board’s private network. Label: SUBLEVEL ZERO Aria’s stomach dropped. “I’ve seen that label,” she said. “In Elena’s scrubbed access logs. I thought it was a decoy.”