A Tale of Two Lives || Chapter 4 — Regrets and Reconciliation

Crystalia was sobbing when she got home, which immediately attracted the attention of her parents, who rushed to follow her as she ran into the secondary bedroom. Deep inside, she knew they just wanted to help, but Crystalia pushed her parents away...

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A Tale of Two Lives || Chapter 7: Flowers of Love

As Nolaltro enters the secluded room, he notices something on Crystalia's pillow, but he doesn't recognize it until he walks over and looks it over carefully. It was a small, dull gray package and it was perfectly square in shape, with a small bulge...

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A Tale of Two Lives || Chapter 6: Of Family

"Come on and join me Nol, I'm not just thumping the side of my tail on the bed because I feel like it," Crystalia teased as Nolaltro stood there, looking in her general direction with a glossiness in his eyes- one that told her just how dazed he had...

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Chapter 15- Worlds Unknown

When she awakes the next morning, Crystalia gets dressed, and heads down to the mess hall, where she finds Adinia already eating. Crystalia takes her seat next to the Queen and, wordlessly, starts to eat her food. Breakfast is the usual sausage,...

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Chapter 12- Young Lovers

"Well, sweetie, you don't want to ruin your bed, do you?" Crystalia murrs back. "Oh, no, not that, I just want to wrestle a little bit." Nol replies truthfully. "Oh, that I can get behind." Crystalia growls, pushing herself on top of Nol and...

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Chapter 11- Hiding in Plain Sight

When Crystalia awakens later that day, she finds herself in bed once again, she dismisses this, assuming Adinia had brought her back here; getting herself out of bed, she stretches, groaning happily as her back pops in multiple places. Getting dressed,...

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Chapter 1- Chromatic Disposition

When she awakes, Crystalia finds herself in the very world she had been seeking for her entire life. She looks in amazement at the scenery around her. The ground was a shimmering expanse of fragile, crystalline grass; the sky, an ever shifting swirl of...

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Chapter 6- Crystalia’s Future

Crystalia manages to heat up leftover food from the previous night for her evening meal before crashing into her bed, passing out almost immediately. When Crystalia awakes the next day, memories of a luminescent place fill her mind and she tries to...

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Chapter 5- Natural Talents

Upon returning home, Crystalia is greeted kindly by her mother who asks how the day went. "It sucked." Crystalia replies immediately. "Why so?" Crimsa asks worriedly. "We did one incredibly easy thing today." Crystalia responds, "I got bored and...

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Chapter 10- The Games Begin

When Nol wakes the next morning, he lays there, slowly drinking in the gentle curvature of his mate's still, sleeping body. After a while, he nudges her shoulder with a paw, watching raptly as her eyes flutter open. "Good morning, mate." she...

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Chapter 9- Friendly Relations

Crystalia stumbles as she spreads her wings, readying to take flight for the first time since she woke up from her drug induced coma. She unsteadily flaps her wings, crashing multiple times before she manages to make it into the air and fly up to the...

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Chapter 8- Death’s Edge

Crystalia is unable to feel anything as her limp form is battered with debris and shockwaves, leaving most of her bones broken and one of her sides completely torn apart. She feels her life slipping away as a familiar, comforting voice comes to...

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