The Second Law - Part V
Ilaria sat up straight in her captain's chair with a huge gin stretched over her muzzle. "Damn. You weren't kidding when you said you would be quick." Iolvin smirked right back at his sister. "Is twenty minutes quick?" "It is when you see what she...
Kaleidoscope II - Phantoms and Their Ghosts
Kaleidoscope II Phantoms and Their Ghosts * * * # The Barrens, Neo Egypt Yangu-Grurra System, Planet Vasily (YG-4) 13:49, 35/2/1, 15 XP * * * “Ottah…” Robyn slowly phased her paw through her wife’s rudder tail, defeat sagging over her...
The Second Law - Part II
"I think that's everyone except Carbon, and she'll just take a minute. Oh, wait." Ilaria pulled up the Starbreeze's security grid and started scanning through cameras. "Anyone know where Rose is hiding? She's got one of those buddies in her head and we...
The Second Law - Part XII
«So these suits of yours only work for the few of you?» Ceylon grabbed onto the side of the elevator shaft as he floated against it, anchoring himself by his rear hands. «May I pry into the reason why?» "Glad to see you're not probing us so hard...
Ashe to Ashes
# Ashe to Ashes "...The resources for this section were actually provided by Doctor Rustfelt's organization--half of the entire ward, actually. My current frame was built by MetaReal as well." A very professionally dressed android led her guest...
Kaleidoscope XII - Death and All Her Friends
Kaleidoscope XII Death and All Her Friends * * * # Barracks Causeway, Northern Perimeter Obrenheim Castle, Northern Darius Prime 06:01, 36/2/2 * * * A pair of guards rushed into the crumbling hallway, pole weapons held high against their taller...
Kaleidoscope XIV - World Under Fire
Kaleidoscope XIV World Under Fire * * * # Recovery Ward, Medical Deck Volk, Legend Class Cruiser En-Route to Vapor Furnace Prime 18:33, 36/2/2 * * * "Vix?" Artemis overloaded the motors of the electric door guarding Cherenkov's room....
Timeless Crossroads
Timeless Crossroads A Wildfarer Tale * * * # The Ors Estate Rotterdam, Post-Netherlands, Earth * * * “Oh, this is perfect.” Carbon stepped through the drawing room, his webbed paw wafting over a couch in passing....
The Second Law - Part XXIV
"Hello~? Nobody?" Carbon fit Sydney's helmet over her head and cracked Ex's cockpit open to the elements. "This isn't right. Why would nobody be using this cavern? It's the largest on the planet." The vanguard squad peered past the cooling engines...
The Second Law - Part XIV
"I'm so sorry, Robyn." With a heavier burden in her paws than just wood and string, Ilaria placed the halves of her bow to either side of Robyn's ashes on the captain's mantle and carefully draped the drawstring connecting them behind the urn. "I swear...
The Second Law - Part XVIII
A slight rumble shook a stone wall in the dead of the servants' quarters, subtle enough not to wake the inhabitants but oddly high enough in frequency that it would have seemed out of place. Then a portal opened flat against the same wall, allowing the...
The Second Law - Part XIII
Ilaria fluttered to a dead stop in the deeper sands of the planet's only beach and signaled for the others to halt as well. "How should we approach this, Carbon? We can't go out there without some kind of plan." "I honestly thought ~you~ had...