Cathy

What to use for a hair tie? *considers just knotting it into a bun, with nothing* But that could still fall out, and she wanted to take Alessio’s advice.

Alessio ducked onto the floor, like he was afraid to be hit, and ripped a strip from the hem of the tablecloth.

Leana’s brows lifted. Her eyes widened when he snapped off the leg of the table.…[Read more]

BURN

Who sprung a leak to the Endless Abyss?!

“We’re gonna die Search! We’re gonna die!”

Search just clucked my hand tighter. “Not yet we aren’t!”

“And I still haven’t figured out what a dragon is!”

“We’ll be fine!”

“I don’t want to die without knowing what a dragon is!”

“I don’t either!”

“In here!”

It’s so loud from the flood I d…[Read more]

*Kimmi sent something earlier this morning, and… sees now it never went through* *grrs* *types abbreviated version* 

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Leana had been joking about the biting. She tended to joke, when nervous, but always wondered if anyone realized it was in jest. Dom did…

She danced away from Alessio when he released her. But she didn’t…[Read more]

@ragnarok

Thank you! I’ll check it out!

@this-is-not-an-alien

That’s ok! I’ve actually been interested in seeing that anime!

“That’s incredibly treacherous how could you do such a thing.”

Snake-Punk adds almost amiably. But also, with a suspicious hint of confusion.

(despite the fact that he didn’t really know what a lizard was.)

“So.” Oh boy, here it comes. “How’d you get permanent blood stains in your hair?”

Not what I thought was coming.

But I grin anyway -whi…[Read more]

“How do you break free?” His arm locked around her neck.

Leana did her best not to make a gagging sound. Break free? Uh… “Bite you?” If I had my dagger, I could try to stab you in the gut. But I left it on my horse, and… I wouldn’t want to risk success, with that. Not that I would have success. “But… you might not taste too good.” *br…[Read more]

Alessio nodded thoughtfully and took her hand, and shaped it into a fist. Leana watched, brows furrowing a bit.

She tried to put her thumb inside her fist, because she always did, but Alessio corrected, “You need your thumb outside of your fist, so you don’t break your hand throwing a punch, your feet need to be spaced enough for balance but not…[Read more]

Alessio backed out of the embrace, but his hand still lingered on Leana’s shoulder. “We’ll need to decide which mirror to enter and come up with a plan to make it through alive.”

Leana nodded slowly, and took a step back. You said… the point of all the mirrors is to make us feel guilty? 

Alessio glanced uneasily at the chocolate guy, I should…[Read more]

Her heart relaxed, when Alessio truly squeezed.

“I – Sorry,” He stammered.

Leana didn’t pull away or look at him. So many things still rushed through her mind.

After a minute or two, Alessio spoke again, “I’ll keep searching until we find your father- I believe we’ll find him eventually, but if we don’t…” Leana stepped back. Alessio’s face ti…[Read more]

Alessio seemed in a daze, and Leana resisted the urge to fidget.

Finally he looked at her, biting his lip, “It’s possible if Nithel is still in this world…dimension…place…then he might be forced into the trials as well and there’s a chance of us finding him there. I don’t know.” He sucked in a deep breath, and Leana’s brows furrowed. “The…[Read more]

“Alright, we’ll need to come up with a plan.” Alessio spoke, “We don’t have a lot of options and we don’t know really what’s ahead of us so we should be prepared for the worst. Our best option would be to work together and manage our assets and liabilities accordingly.”

Leana’s eyes widened, as she still hunkered under the table. Is it too m…[Read more]

@this-is-not-an-alien HIIIIIIII

Nah, don’t worry, it’s not as confusing as my brain. I’m working on choosing which character to throw in. It’s currently a tie between my highly trained, bad with emotions, water-controlling assassin princess, Adira “Bubbles” Achlys or the angry fire controlling princess Jaira “Sparky” Heba.

SEARCH

Pardon me for sounding like Burn here, but punk literally not a single word of that made sense!

Okay. Deep breaths Search. Piece together what you can.

Whitehall – a location.

Jetstream – um.

Ship – drawing a blank… oh, probably transportation? Put a pin in that.

Job and money – that can’t be too different?

Tickets – okay, for tra…[Read more]

“Where are we going?” asks Search.

“Whitehall. There we can sit out the jetstream and catch a ship north. From there I go back home. You guys can follow but that is up to you.”

“And what in this clearly gods-forsaken land is a jetstream?”

Caleb looked at Burn hard for two reasons. First, having lived all his life on the floating islands…[Read more]

BURN

“There was but…” Ax-Punk says.

He doesn’t finish.

Instead he sighs, wanders back inside the Ma’n’Pa store.

Hm. To spy or not to spy.

“Hey punks.” I said, politely. “We’re leaving Ax-Punk behind.”

There. Now I’m not spying. I’m waiting impatiently for him.

“Excuse me ma’am. Could you tell us where the port is?”

See, here’s the weird th…[Read more]

“Are you still going to kill me when this is over?” Alessio asked.

Slowly, Hades remove a biscuit from his pocket, followed by another biscuit. Sigh. “I don’t know yet. Though it’s very tempting right now.”

Hades sound rather aggressive, but that was a little intentional. How much food did Alessio stuff in his pockets? Like the grumpy pes…[Read more]

@this-is-not-an-alien
SPOILER OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE:

Marian and her cyborg roommate Tammi have a pet cat with a bionic tail named Stumpy. Tammi likes to tinker and add modifications to bionics. Tammi got bored and added lights to Stumpy’s tail. Now he has taillights and chases them when they’re turned on.

Yes…” Nathair said. “And we should probably leave this area soon before the authorities come.”

Caleb looked at the bar just in time to see a draker turn someone into a pancake against a wall.

“Actually, Snake-Punk has a good point. Let’s do that first.”

“Um, the bartender wants some compensation for the fight you started Nathair.”…[Read more]

@this-is-not-an-alien

Thank you!

About the sci-fi story I was working on: I want to finish it, but I need to take a step back from it for a while since I need to rework so many aspects of it that it’s overwhelming and exhausting at the moment, especially since I went the wrong way about starting it (no outline or even an ending in mind 😬). So,…[Read more]