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when night fall answered

Twelve-year-old Eli Mwangi watches his mother vanish into a pale column of light. Years of unanswered questions harden into a promise: he will find out what took her. In high school a spring party becomes the first violent return of that night—alien figures descend, and Eli discovers he can shape a pressure-like energy that bends motion and shields memory. The attack forces him to step from grief into action. Eli gathers a small group of friends—Maya, the map-minded strategist; Jonah, the resourceful tech tinkerer; Asha, the unstoppable runner; and Tomas, the dreamer who steadies them all. They train, improvise devices, and stage decoys, learning that the invaders are not abducting at random but harvesting patterns of memory and emotion through latticed machines hidden beneath the town. Each confrontation leaves the aliens smarter and the teenagers more changed: proximity to Eli’s power and repeated exposure to the lattice awaken latent abilities in others. As the alien network escalates—targeting hospitals, the radio tower, the market, and finally the quarry—the group discovers a cavernous lattice that assembles stolen fragments into a model of human life. The Nightwatchers bruise and confuse it with emitters and noise, but the lattice adapts, weaving false patterns into real ones and using tenderness as bait. The town becomes both battlefield and shield as the group trains neighbors, builds resilient networks, and teaches ordinary people to hide what matters. Loss and betrayal sharpen the stakes. Volunteers are taken, a trusted helper disappears, and the men in suits arrive seeking control. Eli refuses to hand over their defenses, choosing instead to spread knowledge and build a decentralized resistance. The fight becomes a long, communal effort: small victories, costly lessons, and the slow growth of a movement that protects memory by teaching people to be unreadable. In the end the story is not a single rescue or a final battle. It is a portrait of a town learning to defend its humanity—of a boy who turns grief into leadership, of friends who become family, and of a community that refuses to let its memories be harvested. Eli never receives a neat answer about his mother, but he finds purpose in protecting what the lattice seeks to steal.
S_Pio · 1.9k Views

Surviving Terra II: My Journey Through Catastrophes and Nobles

Terra II, a world split into vast planes, where deserts stretch ceaselessly and horrors—roamed without rest. It is a land scarred by self made nightmares that never fade. The Common Era, where the concept of happiness has been abandoned. No story begins with joy, and none end with peace. One mistake—a misplaced word, a fleeting gesture—is all that it took. Strength was never the problem. ▄▀█ █░░█▄▀ has survived long enough to know that looking strong, feeling strong, and being strong are three different lies people tell themselves to keep moving. Terra is heavy. The roads are long and boundless like the deserts ▄█ █▀░ █▄█ had walked. And family...family—that has been stripped away. Once? Twice? no, Thrice? You’ve walked. You’ve run. You’ve shot at everything. You've seen your friends perish away, your self made family rotting away, and how do you cover it? By carrying a carload of supplies. But strip it away. What is left behind? ———————— I'm pretty nervous how this version will be received and since i went for both magic and a modern setting. I'm not really good as creating things so i took inspiration from some well known media, so if it seems familiar, i tried as best i could to make it my own. but idk. Lets see, at least read up to chap 35, since this is when it starts to pick up pace. short ass rant, lol. Kristen out, peace. 09/25
Kristen_404 · 27.2k Views

Finding Him (BxB+)

Kalypso "Kali" Brunn was searching. He was trying to find someone he once knew well, someone he'd lost without even realizing. Kali needed the man who could wholeheartedly love himself and the company of others yet live happily, even alone. That someone wouldn't need another leading their life, completely shaping every thought he had, each action he performed, and the emotions he'd felt. He simply had to see that man's lost smile once more, a smile so true and pure, and he believed the Black Manor was the best place to look. It was the perfect home for Kali to find himself again. A peaceful, private, and honest(deceptively so) abode for him to relax and heal in. It seemingly had the most perfect conditions. The only downside of the new arrangement would be that he's yet to shake off his loneliness. He's determined to get along with his new housemates, but it's proven to be hard, especially as half of them blatantly ignore him and the other half downright hate his mere presence. But who's to say the future won't change? Perhaps his clumsy, self-deprecating ways will finally garner him some much-needed attention. Maybe they'll see just how much he needs someone to stand by him, even if he happens to claim otherwise for pride's sake... Or suppose they could continue to ignore him until he stays forever stuck in his regrettable past. Kali doesn't want to think about the 'scumbag' he ran away from or the friends that hurt him. They didn't deserve his tears any more than he deserved the emotional turmoil he'd suffered through.
Shady_Sunflower · 10.1k Views