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I didn’t find the escape I’d longed for. My world became the interior of the cabana with my every sense attuned to it, and soon enough, they were blasted by a wailing screech. It went on and on while every jittery beat of my heart competed with its volume, and...

The length of the road that I’d traveled earlier today, a time that seemed like years ago, went by in a flash with the forest on one side and a sea-like lake on the other. Also, evushk. He was… concerning me. In our time together, evushk had always been a st...

The outer layer of Acceptance Arena held a reverential air, spilling over from the ceremony taking place inside. As I scanned what I could of it, I absently browsed through the feeds of the inner layer’s recorders, and once I’d found one with a good angle on P...

I landed the skycruiser far from evushk’s estate. After finding me in the Crescent, Talira had lent me the vehicle, although my memory of the event was hazy. I didn’t remember much about what had happened after Tatum’s ‘death’, just snapshots. Talira stopping...

My barricades against my emotions had yet to be raised again, as evidenced by my narrowing field of view and the sear of my heart. I got to my feet, taking sips of air to calm myself down, but it wasn’t working. He needed to know what I’d decided while standin...

Korix and I seemed like a terrible match for many reasons. First of all, he was my teacher, and some thought that a relationship between us would make him go easier on me with my training. It… did not. At all. And of course, no one liked the idea of the Lok...

A shiver ran through the aircraft, rattling stored equipment in its bins, and in the seats closest to the cockpit, our Second Stratus support team tensed, throwing glances over their surroundings. I didn’t know why they’d let the disturbance ruffle them. Sur...

House Kolb speed was plenty useful in short stretches, pulling operatives or strike team members away from killing blows, but using it for more than a minute at a time was difficult. The human brain couldn’t keep up with a body moving at speeds that could look...

Korix looked ravishing at the moment. In black dress pants and a button-down shirt with a wine-red tie to accent it, he’d look amazing enough, but the coat he was wearing, falling to the calf with a shiny, black exterior and a lining to match the tie, only add...

Even though it was still early, people had filled the Crescent, and clumps of them were congesting normally easy to traverse pathways. While I ducked and dodged my way through them, I admired the wide range of aesthetics presented tonight. Almost everyone was ...

When I returned to Feena, she looked grumpy rather than just acting like it. I cautiously approached her with my offering, keeping my eyes peeled for the fiery dragon that she sometimes became. “Took you long enough,” she grumbled, tearing into her food. “So...

Neither Korix nor I wanted to say something. If we did, our inevitable answer would become concrete, and having that uncertainty, that energy, floating between us… Mother Time. It was both ridiculously tantalizing and enormously frustrating. “You said you’d ...

Over the course of several hundred years, House Cerullis, in their efforts to better understand our planet and what lay beyond it, had launched several satellites into space, the frontier that we Lutovish never dared brave again. With time, they’d made changes...

After we’d walked for quite a while, enough to ensure that no one would interrupt us, Korix stopped, requesting a direct connection. He looped me into it while also preparing to project my grandmother between us. She’d always preferred visual communication ove...

Ace and I left the guesthouse, circling the main building. At the first side entrance we found, I broke through its security processes before holding an open palm in front of Ace’s nose. When he looked up at me with a sloppy grin, I blessed Mother Time that do...

Leski sucked in air like a dying fish, and from the corner of my eye, I caught Niklaus glancing between us. “You!” she shrieked. Wincing, I cautiously smiled, flicking two fingers in a wave. “Me,” I said. “Do you two know one another?” Niklaus asked. Drag...

Niklaus led me away from the dining room. He took us on a convoluted route to his office, which made me wonder if he wanted to keep me from learning its precise location. I reserved my curiosity about why he wanted to speak with me. What was the point in spec...

As I got dressed, I reviewed my list of mysteries, the ones that had once more begun flocking to me. A few days ago, someone from Cerullis had helped to destroy Korix’s estate for unknown reasons. Reasons that I suspected had something to do with the attempt ...

Darting back around the corner, I shot out an arm, driving Leski into the wall beside me. What was he doing here? Come on! What were the chances that Alezand would show up not five minutes after I’d received confirmation that he’d had a hand in my home’s glas...

First, I secured Ace in the guesthouse, leaving him with an elaborate, treat-filled puzzle to solve. While there, I got myself properly attired for a meal with the enemy before leaving to find Leski. After slipping into the room she was in, I soundlessly clos...