Staring Into The Void Novels & Stories

The dark circles beneath his eyes and the hollows in his cheeks spoke of sleepless nights and hard days. Remembering that he was no longer even the controlling force at his own company, I thought I understood why he was here. I assumed he had come to confront me about the shares. Instead, he said in a hoarse voice, “Coco, I missed you so much. I barely slept in the past few months. I was terrified I’d never find you, that you’d leave me forever. And even when I did sleep, all I dreamed about was the sight of you walking away from me without looking back.

The System would like Host to know this is the most complex operation it has performed in this host's lifetime. The System is focused. The System will comment later. --- The Void Dragon's presence fills the channel in a way it hasn't before — broader, deeper, like the expanded cracks in the seal are letting more of it through. Look, it says. Not a direction. An instruction. An offer. I look.

I looked up after sending the message. The comments in the air were blurring, like static on a television with a bad signal. "What's happening? I can't see…" "The story fell apart, so we're being forcefully removed!" "No! I haven't finished reading yet—" The last comment disappeared before it finished scrolling across my vision. All the lights in the room were switched on. I had no choice but to squint against the blinding glare. The music on the huge screen stopped and returned to the karaoke's usual interface.

The darkness pressed in around me. It was cold and tingled my skin. The darkness expanded outward. A figure stood at a distance. So far, it was only vaguely human-shaped. I squinted, but there was no light. I was standing in empty dreamspace, just like I had been when Isabell had called on me. Except this wasn't Isabell, it couldn't be. It didn't feel like her.

Evelyn said, the impatience in her voice clear. “I’m going,” Lila said, rolling her eyes. She shot Kallista one last glance before disappearing down another hallway. Evelyn sighed, looking suddenly tired, her tone softening. “Dinner is at seven. Please be prompt.” With that, she turned and left, leaving Kallista standing in the center of the massive middle way of hallways with no direction of where to go next. She was surrounded by many people but Kallista knew she had never felt more alone than this very moment.

I grabbed the bedsheet off me, and pulled out the IV drip from my hand, which left a tingling, painful sensation, which I didn’t care to notice. “Dad?” I called out while I limped to the door. “Finally, the sleeping beauty is awake.” An unfamiliar, cold voice rang out behind me. I didn’t know why I turned around slowly; I felt a shivering sensation that I’ve never felt before in my entire life as I came face to face with a very tall, pale man in his mid-twenties. His aura was so cold and dominating that I felt shiver ran down my spine. I clutched the doorknob like my dear life.

"The Error has... stabilized." ​"I have a name," I said, leaning closer until my reflection in the glass overlapped with its pale face. "And the only thing that's stable here is your status as a prisoner. You tried to turn my world into a lifeboat. Now, you’re going to tell us where you were planning to sail it." ​The Surgeon’s head tilted with a jerky, bird-like motion. "The Void... is not a place. It is a... consumption. The entropy... the Silence... it is coming for this sector. We were not... saving ourselves. We were... preserving the... Suture."

she teased. Kath’s face turns crimson and gets back to work, ignoring her friend. Hillary asked the passenger to turn off their phones and fasten their seatbelt as the plane take off, Kath can feel that Jacob is staring at her while Hillary is talking announcing the things they have to do, she is trying to avoid that gaze but she ended up turning her sight on him. “Why am I even looking at him?” she is irritated with herself, she turned around and went near the emergency exit and seated on the cabin jump seat.

It watched me. It studied me. Then it spoke. Not with sound. Not with words. But with intent that pressed directly against my mind. Who dares enter the void? The pressure of the question made my chest tighten. Who dares attempt to command it? The darkness shifted around me, heavy and ancient. Do you believe yourself worthy to govern it? The weight of its presence threatened to crush me. I tried to speak. To answer. But before I could, the void spoke again. If you do not possess the strength to command the void…

Amos's POV - Inside the Void The Void is worse than I imagined. There's no light, no sound, no sense of direction. Just endless darkness pressing in from all sides, trying to tear my soul apart. Whispers echo around me—voices of the dead, souls that got lost here and never escaped. They claw at my light, trying to drag me down into oblivion with them. "Mira!" I shout into the darkness. "Mira, where are you?" No response. Just the hungry whispers getting louder.