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A Web Novel

Half the Truth

Thea sees too much. Every aura, every lie, every thread of emotion bleeding through the people around her.

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Four kids. One impossible frequency.
A school full of lies.

When Thea arrives at Millhaven Academy — a boarding school for kids the system doesn't know what to do with — she expects the usual: broken people wearing bright masks.

She doesn't expect to find three others carrying the same impossible frequency in their soul.

Cole moves through shadows like they belong to him. Yuna contains a strength that terrifies her. Kai can swim through digital networks with his mind. None of them chose to be here. None of them know why they're connected.

"The closer they get to answers, the more they realize that everyone around them — even the people trying to help — is only telling them half the truth."

Millhaven is not what it appears to be. The staff are not all who they claim to be. And the four of them were not gathered in one place by accident. People are watching. A clock is ticking. And the truth about what they are is far more dangerous than anything they've survived alone.

They didn't choose this. But something chose them.

Thea

Aura Sight

She sees every lie, every thread of emotion bleeding through the people around her. Seeing too much has always been her burden.

Cole

Shadow Walker

He moves through shadows like they belong to him. The darkness isn't something he fears — it's something he wears.

Yuna

Unbound Strength

She contains a strength that terrifies her. The power inside her isn't a gift — it's a pressure she's barely holding in.

Kai

Digital Drift

He can swim through digital networks with his mind. Every system is an ocean, and he was born knowing how to breathe underwater.

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