Skyscrapers, or what was left of them, clawed at a sky choked with broiling dark clouds. They were skeletal, their glass eyes long since shattered, revealing the rusted bones of their inner working...
2025-02-18 02:34:59 +0000 UTC View PostZheng and his bodyguards retreated rapidly, not wishing to get zapped by the extra-hostile Thunderbird.
The Kitsune waitress brought us our meals and we ate in relative silence.
V...
2025-02-17 02:04:40 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a flurry of quick illusionary adjustments, we emerged from room 818 as a group of six male Omnids. Cinder, back in her bulky masculine form, took the lead, her gait deliberately swaggering as...
2025-02-16 02:01:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe music coming from below intensified. Cinder’s head-feathers appeared beside the edge of the bed rising up like a submarine coming out of ocean waves.
Then her wings unfurled and she lan...
2025-02-14 05:33:34 +0000 UTC View PostBalancing two steaming lattes in fanciful Silverfox mugs carefully, I navigated the crowded Silverfox balcony, the scent of roasted beast croissants,coffee and spiced mana-wine thick in the air. 2025-02-12 23:30:29 +0000 UTC View Post
“Dad?” Magdaline asked. “How exactly does the worldwide dimensional shift happen?”
“Hrm,” the Scrutimancer shark cleared his throat. “Basically a cataclysmic event such as freei...
2025-02-12 02:52:04 +0000 UTC View PostI tried to think of a solution to this dire situation but nothing was coming up, my thoughts colliding against each other, inconsistent memories fluttering about like colorful butterflies too quick...
2025-02-11 16:36:34 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey, Vee, what's the date?” I asked Vespera as she pulled me out of the compartment by the elbow.
“September 3,” she replied with a raised eyebrow. “Why?”
“My internal cl...
2025-02-10 18:13:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Through continuous wobbling of my soul armillary I have arrived at more handy dead-world memories. The girls sitting around me in the Skyfall Express train compartment were indeed my friends in our...
2025-02-10 16:16:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe magisteel stairs unfolded themselves down in front of me with a groan like a rusty giant stretching awake, each step black like deepest darkest space.
I looked at them and then tilted my ...
2025-02-10 02:11:44 +0000 UTC View Post“I love you…” Martin uttered with a bubbling hiss and then fell silent.
Cinder blinked blood out of her eyes, focusing on her body to heal itself as she held onto her little ginger fox....
2025-02-10 00:40:22 +0000 UTC View PostArch-Elder Altair nearly toppled from his ornate chair as the Probability Engine behind him erupted in a cacophony of alarms. Dials spun wildly, settling on a stark, red warning message.
“Welcome to Oodway,” Oodway Ningen employee Kimbercha Sawl drawled through the speaker. “Are you collecting any points toda…”
Kimbercha choked on her words, her heart hammering into...
2025-02-05 01:21:00 +0000 UTC View Post
“How do you like your engagement tank, Princess of Thunder?” I asked the swear-hissing Thunderbird below me.
“What?” Vespera’s swears fell apart. She stared up at me.
"Miss Po...
2025-02-04 01:33:53 +0000 UTC View Post"How do I look?" I asked Cinder.
"Like someone I want to slap," my Quetzi GF commented, eyeing my garish red jacket, diamond necklaces and sparkly pants.
I turned to the Stollwurm.
<... 2025-02-03 03:46:48 +0000 UTC View PostJustice Nova stared at me for a long moment, his orange eyes flaring against dark gray scales, hands twitching. Then he glanced at his wife, who was still radiating maternal power, her wings spread...
2025-02-01 00:56:26 +0000 UTC View PostI glanced in the direction of the shark-girl. She reached out to my shoulder, sensing my intent. I turned to Father Matthias.
“I was never here,” I told him, inhaling hard as Scrutosmia p...
2025-01-31 16:22:32 +0000 UTC View Post
“No looking," Cinder ordered when she returned into the Warden's office. "Close your eyes."
I obeyed and then felt something cool slip around my neck.
"Okay, open your eyes," she said...
2025-01-29 18:09:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe Simmi family dining room gleamed with polished marble surfaces and crystalline chandeliers. Vespera sat perfectly upright, her silverware aligned with geome...
2025-01-28 02:36:09 +0000 UTC View PostCeter Kalik Simmi placed his magisteel-covered talons on his sleeping daughter's forehead, his consciousness diving into her dreamscape. The intrusion was precise, calculated–a technique passed d...
2025-01-26 03:53:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe inmates stared at me, their expressions ranging from shock to eager interest.
"What are you doing?" Cinder hissed at me as I pulled off my orange jumpsuit.
"Ah, right, introductions...
2025-01-25 04:52:55 +0000 UTC View PostKai Xing Ker, Arch-Elder of the Golden Star Clan tapped his bronze fingers on his opulent desk as the call connected.
"Greetings, Arch-Elder...
2025-01-24 18:38:14 +0000 UTC View Post
I tipped the cup back and drank deeply.
The coffee infused blood tasted somewhat metallic, salty - but underneath that, something else. A wave of flavor that spoke of predatory instincts, of ...
2025-01-21 22:02:31 +0000 UTC View PostCinder sniffed the air, focusing on the door where Martin had disappeared moments ago. Her feathers shifted through alarmed colors as she realized his scent had comple...
2025-01-20 17:12:51 +0000 UTC View PostCinder bolted upright, her feathers flaring through a hurricane of alarmed colors - sharp reds, defensive oranges, worried blues. The sudden announcement from the speakers had shattered our warm, p...
2025-01-20 03:30:24 +0000 UTC View PostIt was four AM in Thunderland when Zheng had been shaken awake by his great-grand-grandfathers personal butler and told to come right away to his office.
Zheng didn't like the old man, didn't...
2025-01-19 19:36:25 +0000 UTC View PostJune watched the Arx gate and the clock on the wall with growing anxiety. Her Kelpie mane rippled with nervous energy, droplets of water scattering across the dark marble floor of the classroom. Sh...
2025-01-19 04:30:48 +0000 UTC View PostMiss Possible spiraled upward through the rock, her crystalline drill carving a smooth tunnel as she ascended. Inside the control bubble, Vespera hummed cheerfully while manipulating the controls w...
2025-01-19 00:39:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe evening deepened, painting the world in surreal hues as the sun began setting behind Nihilim, reflecting as orange disks across the clouds.
The black hole's corona created an otherw...
2025-01-18 00:10:59 +0000 UTC View Post
"No shit, your insane actions have consequences," Cinder commented, her face lengthening and becoming more draconic. "What are we going to do now, smart-ass?"
She jabbed me in the side with a...
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