The Curse
It started the day I found the note.
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It was unmistakably in my own handwriting, though not a flicker of recollection lit to life in my mind as I lifted it from the pages it had been used to mark. It was simple, short, sloppy even, very uncharacteristic of me; it read:
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Nox is real.
You must save him.
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Staring at the wrinkled sheet in my hands, I flipped it over but was met with a blank.
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Nox?
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I knew the name, but he was simply a story my father used to tell. Setting the sheet down on my desk, my attention returned to the book in hand; though it was difficult to keep my mind from wandering. Nox... wasn't he a witch who had cursed a tree or something?
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I couldn't remember.
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Lobotomizing, those words tuned to acid in my skull.
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The beat that passed held me hostage in its moment.
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The book hit the floor.
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I couldn’t remember?
The Novels of
Nox
As I stand next to a stack of books that exceeds my own height, I know it is up to me to find the key hidden in their pages.
How do all these stories connect, what do they have in common?
It must be Nox.
What will I find as I fight against an abysmal prophecy with Thaddeus, break free of the hyper-surveillance conspiracy with Sage, decide whether to take over the world or save it with Kaliber and Erick, weather the wrath of Nox's pen with Gen, try to fix the timeline with Enzo, run Operation 15 with Sheldon, relive the echoes with Ray, search for wholeness again with Drew, fight for the title of Ghost King with Kasper, struggle with demons and redemption with Hugo, uncover the past to save the future with Jack, survive the Perilloux Palace with Rou, find magic with Nicholas and Tinsel, learn what it means to be with Igor, and live hundreds of lives with Cyrus?
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That isn't even all of them, he has written so many- an entire pantheon of stories.
What string connects the pages?
If I follow it, will I find him?
There must be something, some hints of Nox in every one, proof that he was there, alone on the other side of the page the whole time, writing every word as he brought all of us to life.
As one of his characters, I have to find him, I have to do what's right.
And that all starts with reading the Novels of Nox.
Now, where will you begin?
Author
Valentyne
Author, Narrator, and Producer
The mind behind the largest Queer-led Shared Literary Universe ever written, allow Valentyne to tell you the story of how the Witch's cursed objects influence everything from
teenage romance
to taking over the world.