Initium (The Start) x Book 1 of “The Divine” Series

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even longer to comprehend the scene in front of me. I couldn’t even begin to ma

, like hands reaching up to t

a blazing inferno that

jured echoing loudly, drowning out the wails of sir

ir lives, running blin

oking upon it as it filled their lungs, their panic stricken e

stop the fires from below, as if released from Hell itself. As if a small spattering of rain could even try to control them as their wrath clawe

ything and everyone who would cross paths with it, would all end up in the fiery fu

watched it all unfold from beyond my physical body. Relishing

as uncaring of her thoughts, her feelings, all of her creations will burn, her depiction of her perfect world shattering before her very eyes. Usel

hem all. Mirroring scenes identical to this, from all over the world, at this precise mom

steland that I had

a mere matter of minutes to eradicate. Unravelling all of her h

n, until everything was scorched, decimated. Leaving in its wake piles of ash as tall as the buildings that had once tall and proud. A gra

ay have been

ill end

the world-scale war that

ng missile attacks threate

ot caused by

ophic destruction, on thi

e

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- Un

llo

should

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on’t w

llo

think we

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ng me. I could feel my lungs depleting, as if the the oxygen was be

consume me. This arduous, prolonged torture of never

id just wa

es drew closer. They weren’t just growing in volume, their voices were laden wi

tainty Overwhelming me. I could taste their fear, the salty droplets of the

what they wanted. I didn’t need to be able to see my surround

rything an

ooming over us all like a heavy oppressive cloud. A series of occurrences that no on

ame, like a broken re

tinuous loop she had mani

a predestined fat

n to us that lead us to believe that we could change our Fate. But in reality, the journey never truly mattered,

ignore the warmth that radiated from their bodies that were too close to

ation, knowing all that I knew, unable to prevent

wake up, at lea

eady to acc

e reality that would befall u

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lour began to drain from the world

ndtrack to life, which harmonised in the wind that

nd withered under the weight of the oppressive a

s, threatening to uproot them and destroy the wildlife hiding within. Shelte

et to bring. An omen of what was yet to be

things that no one else did, felt things

typical univ

lled, stirring me from my reverie, from my obser

adiated from her, overpowering the s

world beyond the bus window, to see who it was that spoke, although I

like fire. I could feel them piercing i

ograph. Water droplets beaded at the very ends of her strands of hair, clinging on to the tips, threatening to

steady s little on her feet was Effy. My best friend

nce you were here, you spent your whole life here, stuck in limbo here, as if this wa

resh meat, new blood. According to her, they had found it difficult at first, to be wel

hey had proven to everyone that they had made this their home,

eventually my mother started running her own little cookery club in the local community centre. The hub of the

n us, I think that was why we got on so well, and what had made us good friends since the age of nine, when we

age, it was ‘hot’ gossip for years amongst the other housewives and mothers. That was the reason Effy gave me for the move anyway, that the whispers had

e me. The way she slumped down, I could tell she was in a mood with me, anno

f. I probably knew her better than she would ever know, knowing her various mood swings from the different facial e

shrugged off her sodden back

s she sat back proper

s of her mascara beneath her honey gold eyes. She was by far the prettiest out of the

wouldn’t they want her? Especially in comparison to me: an average looking girl wit

ace, I could feel her energy, this thrumming of excitement, buzzin

unable to contain it any longer. “so…” her voice