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Arrival 1.8
A dozen different things kept Dragon occupied in her day to day operations. Lacking the more limited and unfocused mind of an organic human, it made it easy for her to shuffle tasks off to dedicated processes. Ranging from filing paperwork to drone deployment and management, even to...
Arrival 1.7
"Fuck!"
Tommy Sato cursed as his phone's ringtone startled him and he jerked his big toe into the side of a kitchen cabinet. Pain ran straight up his leg, forcing him to hop over to where he'd left his phone on the counter.
From the living room, he heard his dad's voice shout a...
Arrival 1.6
Breath in. Breath out.
Breath in. Breath out.
A fire without fuel was nothing, and a constant source was required to grow. Paradoxically, it also required constant regulation so that it did not grow out of control. Left unchecked, the embers could easily blossom into a raging...
Arrival 1.5
I rose with the sun, like clockwork, and swung my legs off the side of the bed onto the carpeted floor. My nose wrinkled when I didn’t feel my slippers waiting for me, before I remembered my predicament. Trapped in an alternate universe, currently staying with friendly locals...
Arrival 1.4
Karren Starr was a name I made up on the spot, a sudden fit of paranoia I couldn’t quite explain. I still wasn’t sure whether or not this was a universe where I and my friends and family were fictionalized or not. Danny Hebert's reaction to me had suggested the former, but neither...
Arrival 1.3
“You’re stalling.” Glory Girl accused me.
“I’m not stalling. This is important.” I insisted.
“You are literally rescuing a cat from a tree. You’re stalling.”
I gently plucked the orange coated tabby cat, Frillie, from the tree and cradled him in my arms. He immediately nuzzled...
Arrival 1.2
Mr. Hebert bore more than a passing resemblance to his daughter. Tall, thin, and wide eyed, and filled with that same frantic energy that Taylor seemed to possess. Of course, that was probably a result of the unfortunate circumstances that the poor girl had found herself in. It was...
Arrival 1.1
I woke up falling from several thousand feet in the air and on fire. That was a new one.
Adrenaline surged and I jerked out of my stupor in a flailing tangle of limbs. My mind raced as I desperately tried to understand what was going on, how I had wound up like this, and most...
I'm slowly updating Questing to be up to date with the story on Space Battles. This is mostly out of laziness and the fact that I'm on a hiatus from writing until the end of the month.
Room and Ward 1.5
“Hey Weld, can I ask you a question?”
“Sure, go for it.” he said while standing on the ceiling. Or was it the floor, since I was technically standing on the ceiling? Fae’s gravity room really messed with my sense of perspective; up was down, left was right, red was blue and...
...if you’re telling the truth.”
She was silent, and I took that as my cue to leave. I left her there, by my mother’s grave, and didn’t look back.
***
The bus ride home was uneventful. I sent Khepri and his siblings on ahead of me to start gathering mass for the equipment I was going to...
...knew what, and I would figure out what it was one way or another. As soon as I had gotten away from the school. And was wearing pants, of course.
***
“Are you fucking kidding me!?” I kicked my desk hard enough to send me rolling back in my chair.
When I had gotten home (not a fun walk even...
Room and Ward 1.4
After my visit to Fae, the rest of my day was slow by comparison. I had more paperwork to fill out, and when I wasn’t doing that, I was taking emergency first aid classes. Wards were required to have knowledge in basic first aid, along with a full education of police and...
...Trazyn said simply. “Honestly Taylor, it’s not that complicated.”
If looks could kill, I would’ve reduced that skeletal asshole to molten metal.
***
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011. Brockton Bay
So, that was a problem that I had to nip in the bud real quick. The phase taliman wouldn’t exactly...