Listen close, will you? Here is how our world ended. It started very simply: with a dragon and a city. Its king was well-liked, for he had brought a pause to the constant warring the kingdom had made its business. And then the king was dead. He had no direct...
01 opened her eyes into a hazy void. In her experience, being “the first of a kind” was wholly overrated; it was constant work and scrutiny. There were missions, and then between them there were simulations, and between them there were tests. She suspected that there were more tests than...
It’s not that I dislike Paris, per se, it’s more that I never got to see it in a particularly pleasant light. Every time I went to the city, I was busy with the process of arriving somewhere else on time. This was just as true when I arrived on...
There was a great pain in Edward Barrowe’s upper back, followed by the terrible feeling of falling directly onto his face, and then numbness. Dying was, in Mr Barrowe’s opinion, far less pleasant than he’d been told. Of course, then there was a light, and a gentle urging toward said...