The Hum: A Shattered Oath Novella

Before Veyna sang the wrong note, Lilith did. Before Riven questioned the stars, Lilith taught him how to look at them. Before the chains cracked, someone had to bleed against them first. Raised within the brutal Order of the Oath, Lilith learned early that survival meant obedience. Voices were corrected. Bodies were shaped into devotion. Compassion was carved away until only function remained. But Lilith was never good at becoming hollow. Alongside her younger brother, Riven, and her closest friend, Veyna, she grows within the shadow of the House, where children are taught to sing hymns powerful enough to hold the sky itself in place. Together they steal moments of humanity between rituals: whispered jokes beneath chapel stairs, hands linked beneath starlight, quiet rebellions hidden inside shared breaths. Until Lilith begins noticing impossible things. The chains are tightening. The Choir is changing. And Saethren is listening. When Lilith uncovers a truth buried beneath the House's sacred geometry, she realizes the Oath is not preserving the world. It is consuming it. Worse still, the House has already chosen who must be sacrificed to keep the pattern stable. Her. As the Order closes around her, Lilith makes a devastating choice that will echo across the entire series: to break the pattern, even if it breaks her with it. The moment she sacrifices herself, the sky fractures for the very first time. And somewhere far beneath the world, something ancient finally opens its eyes.A lyrical dark fantasy novella about devotion, resistance, sacrifice, and the first crack in a perfect cage.

Pages: 47, Paperback, Independently published