Arae

The night before her 18th birthday, Giuliana fell asleep on Earth for the last time. Later, she realized it was far from the first time she'd been abducted. Numerous troubling occurrences—occasionally inexplicable happenings that had punched confounding holes throughout the continuity of her childhood & adolescent memories—suddenly all pieced themselves together into a coherent, canonical whole, for which her current situation, light years removed from Earth, became the only possible, inevitable adulthood.

The singular face of Xia, attending an eclectic gallery opening in several alternate dimensions simultaneously…

Jolie observes an exhibit, and/or is herself an exhibit being observed…

Starla used to have a black thumb. Then she found the black ring…

Pasithea, suffering from insomnia…

Augusta, haunted by the many ghosts of her childhood…

Inka, aware of the Minders for several years now and long past cycling through self-doubt (am I dreaming? high? crazy?), had simply accepted their presence, and the fact that no one else seemed to be able to see them, as a novel fact of her life. For the most part, they just floated around, though it was clear from the get-go that they gravitated toward populated areas…

Fiola, visiting her favorite species at an otherworldly aquarium…

Pherusa doesn't yet own her own guitar, but finds that wherever she goes, she somehow always ends up with one anyway…