Starless Nights Novels & Stories

The stars did not fall with noise or fire. Instead, they drifted, soft as ash, slow as regret, blanketing the skies above Sanctum for three nights and three days. Each flake glimmered, ephemeral, settling on rooftops, the backs of silent wolves, and the palms of children who dared to reach for them. The city stilled beneath this celestial hush, the air trembling not with fear or awe, but with the sense that an ancient story had finally run out of pages.

I nodded and replied calmly, "That's right. Mom and Dad have set up jobs for us in Borrengate, so we'll get engaged once things settle down." "Caleb Jacobson!" Faye snapped. She then suppressed her outburst to avoid catching anyone's attention, though her expression was absolutely livid. "Who allowed you to make arrangements for my future, Caleb?" She stormed off in a rage, and once the group was stretched out thin, she led the way at the very front, dragging Xavier along with her. I lagged behind at the tail end, making idle small talk with our classmates. It wasn't until dinner at the buffet that evening that Xavier spoke up at the table. "Haven't you guys ever heard of the Perseids meteor

Thirty-one nights down. The real storm was only beginning.

No one can rewrite the stars How can you say you'll be mine? Everything keeps us apart And I'm not the one you were meant to find It's not up to you, it's not up to me, yeah When everyone tells us what we can be And how can we rewrite the stars? Say that the world can be ours, tonight We sing the last verse together to each other. Our eyes battling and fighting. Our souls uniting. There's no return as I let go there and now. All I want is to fly with you All I want is to fall with you

Stella replied as she turned her head and looked at the sky full of stars and moon. "Rene, do you know many people say that night was dark and lonely? But I don't think so... Because it has the moon and stars as its companion. What do you think?" She looked at RK and asked RK reached out and took Stella’s hand back. He felt in her hand and nodded. To him now, Stella was right no matter what he said. “It’s snowing again.” Stella looked at the falling snowflakes in the sky and pulled her hand out of RK’s to pick up the snowflakes.

Ilsa’s sleeping with her back to me, knife sheathed, but fingers twitching like she’s dreaming of blood. Elliott lies beside me, one arm flung across my ribs, his warm breath on my collarbone. The moment should be soft. But it isn’t. Because the sky is off. I blink and rub my eyes, then look again. There’s no moon. Only stars. Far too many of them. Bright and packed together tightly. Like someone took the constellations I grew up with and shook them in a jar, adding a few million before throwing them back. “Elliott,” I whisper. “Can you see this too?”

Irene screamed with all her might, crying her lungs out. However, Henry stiffened. "Did you say… you saved me from the bottom of a cliff?" Startled, Irene nodded. "That's right. What's wrong with that?" Henry's expression hardened at once. His gaze turned piercing, and his voice was icy as he said, "But I remember waking up inside a cave."

CHAPTER 154: STOLEN KISSES, STOLEN FIRE LUCIEN'S POV: SONG OF THE CHAPTER: "Flickers" by Son Lux ~~~ The stars are burning tonight. Not in the poetic way they always do in Rhea's gaze or her fire, but truly... achingly burning.