A glow in the lion's den

Author: Amani Abdullah What if the refuge we seek is the trap skillfully made to catch us? There are souls born of light, and others that have only known darkness in their history. The novel tells of a luminous soul searching amidst the noise of the world for a refuge that resembles it; full of reassurance, tranquility, and calmness. And when she thought she found it, she approached with all her light and certainty, unaware that she was entering merciless darkness, and stepping into a world that gives nothing but takes, and places that do not value nobility of giving nor recognize the laws of logic, and do not care about your purity as much as they care to consume you until the last spark. Where giving turns into depletion, trust into a trap, and light… into a treasure that must be hidden rather than given. It is not just a novel, but a hidden struggle between the intoxication of illusion and the bitterness of truth, uprooting you from the roots of blind trust and throwing you into the presence of awakening; to learn the harsher lesson: when do we give our light’s overflow, and when do we hide it behind walls of caution? Leaving you with an inevitable question: do those passing deserve us to extinguish our glow for them, or was the light created to shine away from darkness? And is light enough to dispel darkness, or does salvation lie in knowing when to withdraw?