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When I returned to the nursery, Korix was sprawled on the floor while Leski was transfixed by her work on the wall. Watching her suck on her lip, I collapsed beside my life partner, leaning into him. “She’s not bad,” I said. Korix rested his head on mine wit...

It was amazing how much time compressed when you were panicking. I could swear that I’d just been upstairs with my partners, but here I was, barely understanding Pheniks as he babbled, and I didn’t remember how I’d gotten here. Holding my brother’s elbow, I s...

I hadn’t gotten far with Pheniks’ defense when the skycruiser landed in our grandmother’s hangar. Reaching over, I shook my brother. “Phen,” I said. He woke up with sleepy murmurs, scrunching his face up when he saw me. “Zae? What are you-?” As remembrance...

Is… is that why he hated me? Fucking hell, is that why he kept himself so distant over the years? Because of this? Shit. He was right to loathe everything that I was. Mother Time, did I… did I turn my little brother into a monster? [wordless screaming and mu...

When I walked into her office the next day, Talira took one look at me before wincing. “Did you get any sleep?” she asked. “It’s not important,” I sighed. Slinging myself into a chair, I sprawled against one corner of the seat, hooking a knee over its arm w...

With my lung’s contents bursting from me, I lowered my rifle. “Damnit, Feena, you can’t do that,” I said. “I almost shot you.” My sister just grinned at me with a mischievous glint in her eyes. “No, you didn’t. Your finger wasn’t even on the trigger,” she s...

Unfortunately, I had one more stressor to handle before I could get started on this mission. Leski and Korix answered my requests for connection almost immediately, like they’d been waiting for them. “Love! Are you ok?” Leski asked. Korix said nothing. “I’...

Ahead of me, Third Stratus Laylah glided down the hall, drawing stares as she talked in an almost deafening manner. What those rude people didn’t realize was that she was speaking that loudly for my benefit. Me, her bumbling buffoon of an assistant who’d alwa...

Zorana Trapped in the fog between dreams and waking, Zorana rolled to her side, reaching for the one she loved. Her palm slapped cold sheets, and for a single blissful moment, she thought Lyle had left to complete another job. For a moment, she almost groan...

The end has come. Will be coming. Came long ago. Who can tell? Perhaps I could have at one point. In the future. In this moment. What does it matter anyway? Time is an arbitrary construct, one that we use to make sense of our lives... I think. No, that seems...

The quiet murmur of voices woke me up. I couldn't quite make out what they were saying, but considering how many times I'd been in this position, I could guess their words. "Rousing them is a mistake," one would be saying. "We should leave them in suspension ...

Kase The song was everything. Life and light, breath and belief, I needed it like the chanarii needed their hearts or their games to distract them from the song's lack. Dancing through the shadows, I slipped, invisible, toward two of my keepers, seeking a ...

Hello, beloved? That... that was not what my scion was supposed to say. They were not supposed to softly smile at me while I gaped back, and they were definitely not supposed to come forward and gently take hold of my face. With their eyes fluttering closed, ...

Alice Visiting Crinas had always felt like coming home. Never mind that here, Alice had once listened to the most breathtaking concerto she'd ever heard in the bloodsong, one whose consequences her mother had refused to explain at the time. Vaughn had event...

//4526.08.05-02:36 hour of the sun// Why have I been called on again? This is too soon after the last... Oh.// I wake to the end, unfolding all around me. Fate, the cold of it... it takes root in my core, slowing me down as I leap... or stumble to my feet. ...

Alice Her apartment was quiet when she popped back into existence. Frowning, Alice ran her eyes over its single room. When it came to functionality, the place was sparse: a kitchen with its table and chairs, a tub with two buckets beside it, an Ostium style...

Kase I didn't want to do this. In the citadel's ceremonial chamber, I sat on the place's only chair. Stone walls and a thin line of people formed a circle with me at its pinnace, and in the center of this open space stood today's potential thrall. The litt...

The door hissed open behind me, but I didn't check who'd entered. Why should I? I'd been here for two weeks. Two weeks since I'd woken up and the Curators had told me what had happened. They were right to keep me confined. But to this point, they'd been... k...

Kase Somehow, I managed to maintain my calm demeanor as I advanced on Yosai, but I could swear fire was pouring through me as I spoke, scalding my tongue. "Do not bring me a child again," I said, cheery despite the seriousness of my words. Shuffling, Yosa...

Elliot Elliot had never considered himself less than human. At one point, the concept hadn't existed in his people's vocabulary, an unknown philosophy, but maybe that had been the point. Maybe the Lutovish had kept it from them. They'd always presided over...