Skylight Novels & Stories

Elias muttered, wiping his lip with the back of his tactical glove. He extended his good right hand, pulling me up. We stood side by side on the windy ridge, the arctic desert breeze whipping sand against our torn combat pants. Two miles away, nestled deep within the jagged lips of an extinct volcanic crater, a sharp, artificial structure cut through the ancient basalt. It was a massive, towering parabolic dish a hundred yards wide, constructed from polished silver mesh and surrounded by high perimeter fences, floodlights, and patrol vehicles. From the exact center of the dish, a thick, focused beam of emerald-green laser light shot directly into the sky, punching through the earth's atmosph

The stone walls of the Court was groaning, the cracks in the masonry glowing with a brilliant, blinding blue light. "Look!" someone shrieked from the crowd, pointing toward the high, vaulted skylights. I tore my gaze away from Caius and looked up. Through the translucent obsidian of the roof, I saw it. The eternal, brooding darkness of the Sunless Wastes that oppressive, bruised-purple sky that had hung over this land for eons was tearing apart. It dissolved like ink in water, being bleached away by a surge of pure, searing azure. The transformation was absolute. The sky didn't just brighten; it turned into a vibrant, piercing blue. It was the sky of a human

​ANG ARCHIVE NG MGA DIYOS ​Pagpasok nila sa main hall, isang nakabubulag na asul na liwanag ang bumalot sa kanila. Ang atmospera sa loob ay hindi kapani-paniwala—amoy dagat at sariwang damo, isang imposibleng amoy sa gitna ng vacuum ng kalawakan. Ang mga pader ay punung-puno ng mga holographic scrolls na patuloy na umiikot. ​"Look!" turo ni Skye sa isang dambuhalang rebulto sa gitna. "Kamukha mo, Kuya! Pero... may pakpak siya at hawak na espada."

intensity. When it was Ethan’s turn, the first "Sovereign" sled appeared on the ridge above. The scout didn't fire a "Kinetic" weapon; he launched a "Data-Flare"—a "High-Frequency" magnesium light that "Indexed" the entire gorge in a "Vain" white glare.

And then the light. Silver. Clean and cold and enormous, shooting straight up through where the cathedral roof had been, through the remains of it, into the night sky above the northern sector. Not a fireball. Not smoke. Just raw Silver frequency released from twenty years of compression, going up and up and dispersing at the cloud line in a slow, wide bloom that lit the forest and everyone in it from above. The stained glass that the centuries hadn't already broken finished breaking now. Elena heard it, a cascade of small, clear sounds underneath the larger ones, almost pretty.

"The light in the glass, it is not just a representation. It is a live feed of the thermal energy in the upper atmosphere. The South is not just gathering power; they are focusing it. They are turning the sun into a needle, and we are the cloth." ​I stepped closer to the pedestal, my boots making no sound on the stone floor. One of the stranger side effects of my rebirth was a certain lack of physical presence. I felt as though I were made of shadows and memory, a ghost that had decided to linger for the sake of a woman with silver hair. I looked into the depths of the Sky Eye and felt a cold shiver trace the line of my spine. ​"Explain it to me without the technicalities, Leo," I said, my v

The golden light in my skin was flaring so bright it was blinding, and for a split second, I saw a vision through the heir’s eyes: the world wasn't made of buildings and people; it was made of flickering candles of energy, and the heir was the only thing in the dark that knew how to breathe them in. I reached the "Siphon-Relay" ten minutes later. It was a three-story needle of black obsidian, pulsing with a rhythmic, light-eating violet glow that matched the heartbeat of the Spire. It looked like a parasite stuck into the skin of the earth, siphoning the "Grit" to power the Council’s scanners. But the tower wasn't unguarded.

“You mean I can leave?” “Well, you can't leave the realm, Drake has to take you since you don’t know how to leave yet.” He said clearing his throat. “But you can go outside if you want to. It’s daytime, you don’t want to be outside during the night. Some creatures out there are scary, and we don’t like to be out there, they kill our kind.” “Are they Light Dweller?” “Some call them that, but I don’t know.” He said shrugging his shoulders. “But I would fear them if I were you.”

It took about a hour for me to reach the spot Mena wanted to meet at and now I’m nervous I just want this to go right no rush but I would love to seal the deal sooner than later so I have to be careful with this girl she seems so jumpy I was taken out of my thoughts by the time she walked out the door to some warehouse she was a sight I mean legs for days thick thighs and assets sitting just right making me wanna take a bite I bet she taste as good as she looks she’s wearing a thigh length red dress with heels simple but classy I get out my car to greet her and we do introductions then all pile up to head to the bowling alley Mena The bowling alley was nice it’s probably the biggest one I ha

the cell from the window. Anna is going to try to cut through and she has never done this before." Amaris screamed out through the mind link as fast as she could. Immediately Anna's eyes began to glow and she shot out a beam to the wall. It was wider and much more intense than the one that she used in the forest. She began above the window slot and then proceeded down the left side. She was able to cut through the stone blocks cleanly and quickly. The beam proceeded along the bottom below the window, and then started up the right side. Amaris heard a loud shot ring out from somewhere to her right. She stepped back and looked behind Anna. There was a guard. He had taken aim at Ann