HAIZUKI (灰月)

(Veilbound Order Series) There is a place between breaths, between moments, where the world thins. This is the Veil. Most never see it—only feel its touch in cold rooms and nameless dreams. When the Veil tears, the forgotten cross over: wraiths born of guilt, hollowed humans, memories that refuse to die. Few survive such encounters. Fewer remain sane. Those who do are gathered by the Veilbound Order, an ancient force that seals the tears and delays the end of all things. Their power is bought with loss. To stand at the threshold, you must forget something you love—and live with the silence it leaves behind. ╔══ ⟡ ━━━ ◈ ━━━ ⟡ ══╗ HAIZUKI ╚══ ⟡ ━━━ ◈ ━━━ ⟡ ══╝ I don’t remember the vision, I remember what it did to me: Light collapsing inward. My skull too small to hold it. My master screaming my name like a warning instead of a prayer. When I woke, the prophecy was gone—but the fear it caused wasn’t. They expelled me without explanation. Told me never to divine again: I tried and I failed. The sight grew worse. Tears in the air. Shadows shaped wrong. People hollowed out where souls should be. I thought I was losing my mind until the night a Veil-tear ruptured in a convenience store and something dragged a woman through the floor. I drew a seal I’d never learned. The tear closed and I collapsed in darkness. I woke in the Sanctuary. Strange seers called me "open-eyed"... "Veilbound". They burned the sigil into my palm and asked what I would forget. I didn’t understand until I tried to remember my sister. I know she existed. I remember her laugh. Her warmth. But her name—her face—are gone. The absence aches like a missing limb. Now I hunt what slips through the Veil because I’m bound to it. And because every vision I see feels like it’s leading me toward something I already failed to stop.Sometimes I wonder if I was meant to prevent the end.Sometimes I fear I was meant to cause it.