Epsilon Twilight

38. Heart

As night came, Aloe left into the mantle of the stars again but now armed with the foresight of knowledge. There were cotton fields around the World Tree a few kilometers away from it as those were...

37. Questioning

After she gave up on breaching into the palace of Sadina, they returned to their hotel room, not before having a rather expensive dinner at the hotel's restaurant. The effects of the Radiating Unde...

36. Cracks

As well-behaved of a child as Xochipilli was, he was clearly still a child as he struggled greatly against the cold shower. He even switched to toughness to withstand it, and the water was nowhere ...

35. Hammam

Aloe smiled at Xochipilli's delighted expression. Yet another person converted to the greatness of the durum. Poor are the souls that spend their lives without trying one.

The child ...

34. Hometown

"So, you lived here?" Xochipilli asked completely unbeknownst to the battle occurring in Aloe's head.

There was something awe-inspiring in the sheer height they found themselves at, but above...

33. Height

There was one key reason why Aloe wanted to rent the room in this hotel for a night: the elevator. That was what they called those rising platforms, and Aloe had to give them to them, those things ...

32. Sadina

No matter from what angle Aloe looked at it, the colossal tree covering much of the skyline was the Na'mul Ter'nar, the blue tree that Karaim had evolved whilst he was still alive, with its unnatur...

31. Pharmaceutical

Zayn Gerges opened the door to the balcony of his office. The wind was quite potent this high up, but he liked that. Not only was living this high up a symbol of his status and power, but he also e...

30. Evergreen

Xochipilli fell asleep after eating, and Aloe didn't have the heart to make him study more, so he left him to rest. She could have explored the train in the meanwhile, but she didn't trust people t...

29. Restaurant

The best answer to the ticket examiner's question was silence. But as she continued walking down the train and the man followed them, she answered him with a noncommittal "It was the first time I s...

28. Thousand

"They are legion!" A cultivator shouted with wariness as the dust dissipated and allowed them to see the magnitude of the stampede.

"It's a weird feeling, really," Aloe mused to herself back ...

27. Stampede

It was hard to focus on the sounds whilst the rumbling of the railways, the whistle of the train, the thrumming of the engine, and the song of the sands blasted on her ears, but nonetheless, Aloe h...

26. Familiar

The train had a restaurant car, but as Xochipilli still was under the influence of the Radiating Undergrowth and had eaten quite a handful of pastries, hunger avoided him. As soon as the sun starte...

25. Train

Aloe had completely underestimated the capacity of the train. There had been a lot of people on the platform so she thought the insides of the train would be no different from a jar of beans with e...

24. Station

Xochipilli took a while to wake up, so Aloe bought some pastries from a nearby bakery and asked for some directions. Especially about this 'train'.

Unfortunately for the boy when he finally w...

23. Freedom

"Oh, great heavens!" Aloe groaned and twirled in desperation. "How awful! I've never felt this soiled before! And I have worked the earth for centuries!" She gagged. "Ugh, I feel the bile coming up...

22. Emerald

Beholden and trapped, Jawad had never felt more alive in his life. A whimper left his mouth as the incarnation of beauty sat on his lap. He wanted to struggle, to feel such a divine body, but the e...

21. Infiltration

Xochipilli proved quite a capable druid. He had no problem evolving Cure Grass, but at the same time, neither had she when she had originally evolved them. The evolved grass didn't require much vit...

20. Druid

It was a bit embarrassing to admit how much time they dedicated to thinking of names for their current status. Not that they had much to do as they had to wait for Xochipilli to recover his vitalit...

19. Evolution

Aloe wasn't a good teacher. She was well aware of that, and it didn't bother her. She had never taught anything, after all. To put her ideas into perspective, she essentially paraphrased Karaim's o...

18. Practice

It would be a lie if she didn't state how outrageous the prices of the café were, but at the same time, they had also eaten enough pastries to fill a sultanzade's chamber and were also of the qual...

17. Café

The streets of Selen were lovely, and even if the early marvel of her first impression had already worn off, Aloe was still enchanted by the sights. Even though she had experienced years on the cha...

16. Haya

A pregnant silence overtook the room as Xochipilli's words lingered. The boy himself looked around as if he had been wrong, that his eyes had betrayed him. But sure enough, with the dilation of his...

15. Pills

With nothing more left to do in the bank, Aloe and Xochipilli followed the newspaper boy's directions to the shop selling pills. The shop ended up being in one of the poorer neighborhoods of the ci...

14. Bank

Aloe felt as if she was swimming in clouds as she waltzed across the streets. Parasol in one hand, Xochipilli in the other. The child was pouting since she had talked with the newspaper-selling boy...

13. Casual

Xochipilli woke up as the sunlight filtering through the windows hit him right on the face. The young boy grunted and covered his eyes with his arm as he struggled against the sheets. It took him a...

12. Urban

By the time they left the tailor's shop, it was already dark. The sight of the city at night was quite mystical, for it almost didn't feel like it was night. The ever-present lamplights littered ac...

11. Beautiful

Aloe waited patiently in the dressing room, which was almost as big but certainly more decorated than the slaver's room-house. How weird it must be living in rooms instead of houses with all th...