Visions in Red
Book One of Children of the Olive
The children of Falestinam draw the world as they see it. Now, they are all drawing the same terrifying thing.
Amal is a schoolteacher trying to keep life normal in the occupied city of Falestinam. But when she finds her daughter, Noor, drawing a faceless soldier with eyes of violent, rust-colored red, Amal dismisses it as a sign of childhood anxiety.
Until she discovers that every single child in her class is drawing the exact same figure: a tall, hulking warden with inhumanly long limbs and two massive circles of red crayon where its eyes should be.
The children call them the Hollow Ones —monstrous, unblinking figures that only they can see. They appear at checkpoints, destroyed homes, and forgotten massacre sites.
When the shared drawings escalate into terrifying, city-wide nightmares—with children eighty kilometers away reporting the same vision at the exact same hour —Amal is forced to team up with Yasmin, a local trauma psychologist. They realize the children are not suffering from trauma; they are acting as witnesses to a phenomenon they can’t comprehend.
The Hollow Ones are not ghosts. They are an ancient, growing evil born from collective, unmourned silence. And the children are learning their song.
To stop the entity, Amal and Yasmin must listen to the voices of the children and plunge into the deepest part of the past—the Archive of Dust —to confront the terrifying realization: the Watchers are not here to observe. They are a weapon, and their function is to erase.
In a land where memory is war, forgetting is the fuel for the monster. Start the fight for survival and remembrance with Visions in Red.
