Crystal Bloodlines

Prologue

It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.

~John Burroughs

This is a story that starts with eight children of earth, and portals that linked our meager world to a cosmos greater than imagination could hold. They knew little of what they would find on the other side, only that it was a world unlike the one they knew, a much much larger world that was similar to our own and yet so much different and soaked in magic.

The eight had reasons that were their own. Some had the passion to explore. Others felt like they were missing something. While there were people that felt that they were missing out on what their lives could be. At the end of the day it was their own reasons that summed up to be mostly a dream of something greater. They found that and more. Only, they didn't find it in the ways that they thought.

Dell and Cyrus were the main two as the story of the cosmos would have it, and were still gaining a foothold. This was mere months after learning of the portal's existence and digging up as much as they could on what was known of the other side from the darker parts of the internet. Luckily for them they came across their portal a short time after their search began, and with a day of quick preparations they went without a second thought. This was a journey they could only hope would bring their lives what they needed and dreamed of.