1 Chapter 1

Aurellia

I lay in bed, shivering from the cold. Nyctophilia laws, The rules of darkness, forbid light and fire. Our eyes have grown fond of the darkness, but like not all chaos isn't beautiful, not all eyes in Nyctophilia prefer the darkness.

Especially not the eyes of sisters whose destinies are read to be filled with sun. Literally, a year ago we we went to the readers of destiny as customary for siblings at certain ages. I turn over to face Beatrice. She is my sister. We aren't that different, except for the fact that she is a foot taller than me, than everyone else, and always sticks out in crowds. That's the reason we're stuck in here.

Well, maybe. We have bright eyes and they make us noticeable in crowds. Everyone is supposed to fade into the background, in Nyctophilia. Beatrice's bright fashion choices don't help much. Lots of people dye their hair, but it doesn't work if you have bright eyes. The goal of dying your hair is to help you fade into the background. We stick out in crowds, or at least Beatrice does. That's how kinno found us. Our light in this dark world became exposed. I don't know how, but i suspect it has something to do with my sister.

kinno, our dark leader, who is the perfect example of a dark appearance and a dark mind, strides into the prison cell. "Well, well, well. If it isn't my sun children. lucah, Beatrice, and Aurellia. You'll be incinerated for your light beliefs. Wouldn't that be ironic. The sun children incinerated!" He bullies. Beatrice speaks up with a voice I never knew she had.

"Not if we can help it. We have allies. Other sun children. We will become greater than you could've imagined. Light always penetrates darkness." Her voice penetrates the darkness, like a knife. I didn't know I was a sun child! Sun children were rare, almost legends when the truth went public!

I was going to fight to survive and become one of the first sun children to survive kinno's wrath. I look at the other two prisoners. There is Beatrice, someone who I know well, and there is lucah, someone who I am just meeting. I will get to know both of them very well in the next few weeks as they torture us.