by Eliza Pines
Kael has always lived between two worlds—the city he works in and the family farm he calls home, where tradition runs deep and nothing is ever wasted. Life is simple there. Warm meals, long days, familiar routines. But something in the land has begun to change. The air grows heavier. Plants react when they shouldn’t. And the world itself seems to shift around him, subtle enough to ignore—until it isn’t. His family has a name for it. Tabe Sterrae. A name spoken carefully. Never correctly. Because some things are not meant to be called as they truly are. What begins as a quiet disturbance in the soil soon reveals something far more dangerous—something tied to old traditions, buried history, and the things his family was taught never to question. And as Kael is drawn deeper into it, he begins to realize: the land isn’t just changing. It’s responding. To him.
