Darkundertones Stories

Everything in this world works in balance: day and night moved in fixed paths, and life and death maintained a delicate line that preserves nature's cycle. Until this delicate line is pulled and snapped. Around 200 years ago, a horrific cataclysm shook the world and took countless lives. And since then, nothing really remained the same. In this world where people like her are despised, Amila's life consists of nothing more than running from danger and nightmares alike. She found an unlikely sanctuary in the company of a talking black cat named Noir, and a clumsy girl named Sham, who seemed to have her own secrets and past pressing down on her. As the world continued to go out of balance, a silent threat steadily boils from the far west as the calamity that happened two centuries ago threatened to happen again.

In a quiet American suburb where everything looks perfect, Emily is exactly what everyone expects-polite, calm, and untouched. But beneath her carefully controlled exterior is a mind that doesn't follow the rules. As curiosity begins to grow into something harder to ignore, Emily learns how to hide in plain sight-balancing innocence with a dangerous inner world no one sees coming. Because in Maplewood, appearances are everything. And the truth? It rarely stays buried.

It's all about bob.

Liora Ashryn has spent her life trying to avoid her family's legacy. The Valeharts influence governments, shape economies, and move through history like a shadow at dusk. She wants no part of it, until her grandfather Ansel Roethe dies and she collapses at his funeral. When she wakes, she is in 1914, inhabiting the body of an ancestor on the brink of a decision that could alter the course of a world war. Liora soon discovers the truth of the Valehart bloodline. Once per generation, one heir from each of the Twelve Houses can enter the lives of their ancestors at moments of crisis. Known as the Passage, it has allowed generations to quietly redirect history. But this time, something is wrong. She is not the only heir of her generation to manifest the power. Heirs are dying during their Passages. Entire Houses are vanishing as though they never existed. More members of the Twelve are awakening than the system was ever designed to sustain. The balance that has governed history for centuries is beginning to fracture. As Liora learns to navigate the lives of her ancestors, she discovers that intervention is never clean. Every adjustment creates consequences she cannot fully predict. The past resists her. The present reacts. And the cost of miscalculation grows heavier with each attempt. Allies blur into rivals. Observation becomes influence. Influence becomes instability. By the time Liora understands the limits of her control, the damage has already begun to surface. The Passage was meant to preserve history. Instead, it may be unraveling it. History is no longer waiting. And the first fracture has already begun.

A chain of love binds them to someone they will never have - not in this life, not in any that follows. Loyalty begins to rot into obsession, sanity thinning with every unspoken word. Emotions coil through their veins, clawing at the nerves, yet silence remains the only vow they are allowed to keep. Vulnerability festers. Anticipation aches. Desire stands still, suspended in time - burdened with questions everyone understands and no one dares to answer. And when all that remains is ruin, one question survives the wreckage: "The beloved... or the love itself?" -------------------------------