Marks On Our Skin

Soulmates. They're a Dream everyone has, but only a few have the luxury of making their dreams come true. The gods gifted the humans with a gift; a way to search for your soulmates, marks, designs, all the same, that would start off small, in the same spot, and only grow if you find your soulmate.

Still, humans were stubborn and fell in love with the people that they were not meant to be with, and later developed a hypothesis for removing their soulmate marks without resulting in death.

Seeing a mark that wasn't yours was a constant reminder to the humans that they could be replaced. So an underground organization began testing children, and slowly creating children born without soulmates, in the hope of them being born blank; no marks on their bodies.

Instead, they were covered in marks, head to toe, like artful strokes of black ink.

One girl, Tiama Achlys, is different. Her darkness reaches deep beyond the lines etched into her skin, and her secrets threaten the security of the facility, and her friends. Can she free them? Or will the one she's running from catch up to her before she can save the others?