Without The Darkness We'd Never See The Stars Novels & Stories

She leaves me with a line echoing in my head: “We can’t outrun darkness. But we can light up enough space to find our own way.” I stare at the ceiling again. The chessboard is spread. We’ve defended the king—but the game continues.

We all had lunch together until Lucas proposed to go to the cinema, "Leah,wanna go to the cinema? " "Sure why not? I have nothing to do anyways. Can we stop by the bookshop on the way please, I wanna buy books. " "Sure,we will leave once we are done here. I believe you have work to do bro or I would invite you as well. " Now I get why he suddenly wants to go to the cinema when he has a home theatre. "Not at all. I'm done for the day today, so I would be pretty free to come. " Weird,usually he isn't free for anything but work.

I nod, taking a sip of my wine. “Oh, they look different every time.” He rubs his chin, looking up at the stars. “Still beautiful, just like you.” “Always such a charmer,” I say with a little hum, raising my glass. “To us!” “To us,” Lev echoes, his blue eyes meeting mine as he raises his glass with me. The night deepens around us, but the warmth between us is like a bonfire, a reminder that no matter how cold the world becomes, we won’t let it affect us. We burn bright in the darkness, and warm in the coldest of winters. Together.

“I understand.” “No,” he shook his head. “You have never,” he laughed ruefully. “You have NEVER understood. I’m not sure if it’s because you cannot see through the darkness of us, or whether… whether you are simply so… PURE, and whole and wholesome that the darkness within us doesn’t exist to you, because everything that you look at is lit by your internal light, so you cannot see the shadows, like a torch in the night, where we are all blindfolded and thinking that we can see...”

“I guess that comes with the awe of being little. Although far too often we grow up to forget the simple things." "Twilight is a separate world from ours. It is a time of beauty and wonder, and yet it is a time of death and rebirth. It's an endless cycle ever flowing and leading us into tomorrow," he said stepping closer to her and moving her blonde hair from her deep blue eyes. “Tell me about your dad?”

I prayed for my wish to come true, but what I did not expect was to get more than I bargained for. That day was a manifestation, a true testimony that darkness is always the dark, but oftentimes presents itself as the light. It was the very last day humanity saw everything that defined normal, our entire existence turn to dust. Because it was on that day that the sun never set.

There wasn't really anything special about tonight other than the fact that it wasn't cloudy at all and therefore one could see more stars than normal. "Think about how the night sky would be without the moon and stars to illuminate it" he said, "It would be dark and empty. A void with not an ounce of beauty in it." He said. "I know that. I think everyone does. So how does this exactly concern our conversation?" I asked. As usual, he responded with a chuckle. He had a way of making me feel like some little kid.

- she said to herself, rubbing eyes lightly with her hand. After all, Nadir had spent all her life in the Underworld, and to feed she would always go out at night, returning before sunrise, so she was not used to it, and the sun's rays striking her eyes were not pleasant. Nadir got up and pulled the blinds all the way down, then folded the couch she slept on and stowed the sheets in it.

Yet, amid those dire moments, Nine's face often appeared, like the moon illuminating a clear, starless sky. But unlike the moon, which brings a measure of brightness to the darkness, Nine's presence only seemed to deepen the shadows. It's often said that darkness and light cannot coexist; however, darkness and darkness can entwine like old friends. The world is a cruel joke, and humanity is its most profound flaw. *****

Because when the light subsided as the night came, I hated the feeling as if the whole world was gonna leave me. But, one day, he told me something that his leader used to say in one of his speeches. "The stars shine the brightest when the night is the darkest and if the stars are hidden, let the moonlight guide us." There's the thing about them. They always found it easy to make words sound pretty. And just like that, he gave me a different perspective. I could finally appreciate the beauty of it. So now when I thought about it, looking up at the sky wasn't so bad after all.