Chapter 8 - Oh, Brothers
**Chapter 8 - Oh, Brothers** "What do you mean you're 'part of the Black Sock Gang'?" I said, sitting up straighter and leaning over the table, both hands on it and looking between the twins. Rut looked passive and Fiz looked amused. This...
Chapter 7 - Demons
**Chapter 7 - Demons** It was a good night with my friends. We drank beers on the roof of our building and talked about random things until we all got tired and went to bed. Honestly, I can't remember a time when I was more relaxed and...
Chapter 6 - Friends Old and New
**Chapter 6 - Friends Old and New** "Will you just GO AWAY?" I was yelling to an empty room. But I was not alone. Avery sat there on the window sill, kicking one of his legs and frowning in concern. He still had his familiar hat and...
Chapter 5 - From the Desk of Mordecai Crossbell - American Division
**From the Desk of Mordecai Crossbell - American Division (Chapter 5)** It is time to get back on schedule, my dear prisoner. Life has been a kind of controlled chaos as of late and as such I have neglected the one thing that is most paramount...
Chapter 4 - Life in the Arc
**Chapter 4 - Life in the Arc** One of the biggest issues I had when I got to New York was finding a job. The only skills I had, being a chimney sweep and a sailor, didn't really give me a lot of options. Even then, I was just too big to...
Chapter 3 - It's a Living
**Chapter 3: It's a Living** It's funny, but I used to sleep better when I was covered in soot, had barely a cot for a bed, and zero privacy. I even slept better than I did now when I was on the ship. However, ever since I had landed in...
Chapter 2 - Old Wounds
**Chapter 2 - Old Wounds** "You look like you've seen a ghost, Simon." "What the hell is this...?" I said, swallowing as I got onto my knees in the dusty old building. I stared at someone I had never expected to ever see again. A person...
Chapter 1 - Hollow
**Burn Down the Tower: Chapter 1 - Hollow** "Good god, man! Just how long can you hold your breath?" the strained voice above me said through a heated pant. I could feel the hands on the back of my skull, my hat having long since fallen...
Chapter 13 - Codes
**Chapter 13 - Codes** "Do you think any of those tigers are related to Billy?" the voice of the dead said to me while I was unboxing some items along the shelves. "What?" I said, looking over at what I still was not sure was a ghost or...
Chapter 12 - From the Desk of Mordecai Crossbell - American Division (part 2)
**From the Desk of Mordecai Crossbell - American Division **** (part 2)** New York was starting to grow on me. I will admit, my dear Prisoner, that at first I loathed this city. It felt new and old all at once but lacking in...
Chapter 11 - Three of a Kind
**Chapter 11 - Three of a Kind** "Are you sure they're coming?" I asked Rut for the fourth time in the last hour. I know I was bothering him when he closed his book loudly. "If Renaldo says they're coming, they're coming," the white fox said...
Chapter 10 - Seduction
**Burn Down the Tower: Chapter 10 - Seduction** "In all the time I've known you, Siro, you've never dressed me up like this before," I said with a grumble as I got 'dressed' in the clothes that my friend had decided to loan me for the evening. I...