Act VIII
Act VIII: What You Should Never Know About a week later, I returned to Athens, Greece. I had wisely used my week's stay in Romania to make sure that the O'dora family were indeed gone. I didn't want any surprises cropping up later. Sebastian and the...
Act VII
Act VII: Moonlight Marathon Astraea flew effortlessly with me riding on her back. It intrigued me that she was so much in appearance almost identical to Saul. What really impressed me was the gargoyle's speed of flight. They were fast. Maybe not as...
Act VI
Act VI: Demonstrations and Matchmaking When my jet finally arrived in Alta, Norway, I immediately headed off to find the local Chess bunker. To my surprise, there wasn't one there. Chess had evidently never been assigned to this region before. That...
Act XIX
Act XIX: Howling Commandos Krystal's superior turned out to be a tall, bodily perfect Asian woman with very long black hair and piercing green eyes. She wore a red business coat, with the PSI insignia on both shoulders, and she wore black designer...
Act XVIII
Act XVIII: Honor And Duty Lord Oh-Kuni-Raiden Amakami proved to be the strong silent type. After my arrival and introduction, he guided me to the task at hand and spoke little else. His time was evidently very precious to him and my presence was...
Act XVII
Act XVII: White Bishop Returning to Athens didn't take as long as it would have from Australia. Locke and I arrived via private jet at the airport within a few hours, then proceeded back to Chess headquarters. Danath Gaul was awaiting our arrival...
Act XV
Act XV: CHESS Versus PSI Gideon was stifling a chuckle as I had placed Krystal on the spot, instead of him. Krystal was not very happy about how easily I had found out her past. But that was behind us now. We were currently in my Chess issue sports...
Act XIV
Act XIV: Were-Sin City San Francisco, California. It had been quite a while since I had been here last. But while it felt good to be here again, I really only had one destination in mind for stopping here. Xim's burial site. It didn't take me long...
Act XIII
Act XIII: Laurel and Hardy I sighed. "He took the bullet meant for me. Will he be okay?" Circe called out from the bushes. "Dominic will be fine, as soon as I figure out how to change him back to his human self. I just wish I could take...
Act XII
Act XII: Body Double Times Two I decided to veer the party back towards the camp. It was late, and I was looking forward to a warm bed. When we arrived back in the village, I noticed that the campfires were burning a lot brighter than usual. Also,...
Act XI
Act XI: Who The Hell Are You? The next day, Mark and I were relaxing in Athens. I was still in a slump over having lost track of that damned Hogan Slade. Someday I knew his luck would end. I almost had him. Almost. Mark and I were shooting...
Act XXV
Act XXV: Diabolical Aberration I was pleased to see that Capricorn had waited on me at the sportscar when I emerged. He evidently finished his minor explorations before I had. We regreeted each other, then we got back into the sportscar and headed back...