It was just over three and a half paces between floors including the space in between. She started on the 99th floor and her target was the 417th. A bit more than a longstride away. Yuriko’s leap...
2024-12-02 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostOver the past week, Saki, Heron, and Gwendith found out the rat’s schedule and address. It turned out that Armando Malta was not in Dragon Fall City more than a few times a Season. He wasn’t ba...
2024-12-02 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko fought to contain an elated giggle, but on second thought, it wasn’t as if anyone would see her. Well, her incarnation body seated on a rock in the middle of a park might draw attention, b...
2024-12-02 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostAtop a flat rock in Winderfield’s Central Park, Yuriko sat in a meditative pose. Her stay in Protectorate HQ lasted all of thirty minutes, most of it spent waiting. Her welcome had been colder th...
2024-12-02 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe Hidden Ruler sat on his comfortable throne, though it was just an ornate armchair with a high back covered in gilt and gemstones. The cushions were soft enough to ease the burden from his old b...
2024-11-26 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe man in the black suit was bald, heavily muscled, and, for some reason, wearing sunglasses indoors.
Hmmm, no, those weren’t ordinary sunglasses now that Yuriko extended her perception ov...
2024-11-25 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe thought struck Yuriko as odd, and probably irrelevant. As she knew, Emma already had a fiance. She didn’t know the man personally, having already left the household by the time of the engagem...
2024-11-25 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostEarthsday morning and early afternoon was fairly mundane. Yuriko woke up early, ran Nessa around the neighbourhood while she practised her new Ennoia, then got ready to work at the Beans and Coffee...
2024-11-25 13:15:02 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko heard sirens and the squeal of tyres burning on the road not a minute after she finished off the squigglies. She looked askance at Lightfoot, who shrugged and said, “Someone must have seen...
2024-11-25 13:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment Yuriko felt her mind touch the Ennoia, both of her bodies stopped what they were doing and focused. Her true body was just about to take a hot shower but she turned off the showerhead, p...
2024-11-18 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post‘What the eff?’ Weavemaster mumbled in his head as he watched the girl, Lilibeth, slice everything in half just by running through them. ‘Is that her real power?’
Weavemaster, Lance ...
2024-11-18 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostSoundwave looked at his communicator and opened the message from an associate. He smoothly moved his car to the side of the road, flicking the turn signal just before he changed lanes.
“Re...
2024-11-18 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostA few longstrides into the river bank area east of Winderfield. This region of Neo Prism City was called Burmington and the southern part of it included both the Santana River as well as a coastlin...
2024-11-18 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko carefully kept her expression neutral. She didn’t whip her head about, nor did she sweep everyone with her gaze. Her perception, if she pressed hard enough, could be felt, so she was also ...
2024-11-18 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe someone inside her apartment was sitting on her bed. She wasn’t all that much taller than Scarlett. Yuriko’s current body, which was just a couple of inches shorter than her true body, had ...
2024-11-12 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post“You want me to go topless?” Yuriko asked with a little bit of incredulity, but really, Madeline had hinted at nude portraiture last week, so why was she surprised?
To her amusement, whi...
2024-11-11 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe seal on the envelope was a weighing scale with a sheaf of wheat on one side and a bar of gold on the other. The wax seal was a perfect circle, though it had minuscule signs of being trimmed. Yu...
2024-11-11 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostOver the weekend, while incarnation Yuriko was busy having fun setting hearts ablaze and dousing passions with cold water, her true body was cooling her heels in Junktown. She spent a couple of day...
2024-11-11 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostScarlett woke up abruptly with her mouth tasting as if someone pissed in it, and her head as if a jackhammer was working to break it. She groaned and grumbled, “What the eff happened last night?...
2024-11-11 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe space above the booths was thick with pinkish vapour. The people sitting in there were inhaling from a slender pot in the middle of the table—a hookah—and the imbibers were practically spra...
2024-11-05 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostMichael leaned back and heaved a sigh of relief. He groped for a wet wipe to clean off his junk while his eyes didn’t leave the photo on his phone, as well as the dozen others on his personal com...
2024-11-04 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Lily, why are there naked pictures of you circulating in the Network?”
Yuriko stared at Scarlett for a long moment. Lilibeth’s friend had a stiff smile on her face while standing in fr...
2024-11-04 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostOn her roadhog, Yuriko circled around a large portion of Junktown, going from one borough to another. Her perception aura still caught a few bounty hunters lingering around. Her current reach, even...
2024-11-04 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe return to Dragon Fall City took about half a day. It wasn’t because the roadhog she liberated from the gangers was slow; instead, there was a literal tide of bounty hunters after her. Yuriko ...
2024-11-04 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostMichael Stonereiz wasn’t sure, but he thought he was in love. His heart was racing, his lips were dry, and his palms were suddenly wet and clammy. His eyes were burning since he hadn’t blinked ...
2024-10-28 14:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe earth parted easily against Yuriko’s Animakinesis, with the stones being ground to dust and tossed to her back. She only allowed her Radiant to consume part of the matter, allowing it to infl...
2024-10-28 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostEarly the next morning, Yuriko pushed a button to ring a doorbell. It was in a single detached home a couple of blocks from her apartment, with an open yard filled with blooming flowers. She took a...
2024-10-28 13:30:05 +0000 UTC View Post‘Eff, eff, eff!’ Lightfoot thought furiously as she tried to catch the woman in the grey hoodie. She captured and expended momentum charges with every change in direction, barely keeping one lo...
2024-10-28 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe past couple of Cycles had been a strange and disquieting experience for Jeremiah King. Dozens of missing person reports, several mutilated bodies found, and nearly no clues on who did it. The A...
2024-10-28 13:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko veered off the centre of the highway and slowed down on the shoulder. She’d done so quickly enough that she didn’t disturb any of the motorists, but she might have made a few traffic vio...
2024-10-22 15:23:15 +0000 UTC View Post