Elli had been angling for an invite to the Gomiumi Genomics Compound for over a year, knowing from the get-go that adding her name to the waitlist would lead only to waiting. But armed as she was with confidence, knowledge, & several years of study in Berlin under a recent Nobel Prize winner, her nascent experiments with CRISPR had drawn the interest of numerous colleagues, to such an extent that she'd been able to secure her invitation before even having to consider resorting to less savory tactics. Yet, since her actual arrival at the remote island compound, she & her fellow invitees had been herded through its various laboratories at an unseemly speed. She could only assume that these "informative" tours were intended for investors, insufficient to advance even her most cursory lines of scientific inquiry. After 3 long days of this frustration, unable to sleep, she walked out of guest lodging & into the night. She wandered barefoot around the silent complex, half-heartedly pulling on doors she knew would be locked, until she rounded the last building near the bordering jungle. In the darkness, a few distant lights glowed from deep within the thick foliage, a subtle but clearly man-made path leading toward them. Far along this path, she suddenly noticed the well-camoflaged enclosures surrounding her, the largest of which had trees & ferns growing right from their rooftops, seemingly meant to conceal them from overhead view. Audible signs of animal life, which she'd normally have heard emanating from the jungle itself, were here coming only from within these structures. It took her what felt like hours to locate an opening in one, & when she finally looked inside, her mind instantly began to compile a list of equipment she would need when she returned.
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Many girls in many dimensions, one mysterious piece of jewelry…

Lilith
Lilith, listening carefully for the next instruction from the black ring…
Cleo
Cleo, performing a surprisingly effective creativity ritual in her studio…
Flynne
Flynne, assuring a potential customer that she would not have traveled nearly so far if she was just another purveyor of crystals that don't actually work…
Elisa
Elisa, trying to figure out just what, exactly, this random street fair is celebrating…
Mae
Mae, honestly not all that surprised to confirm that giving herself an impromptu tarot reading at the behest of a whispered voice emanating from a black ring would have immediate and particularly harrowing repercussions…
Tricia
There was no universe in which Tricia was not obsessed with flight. In tandem with her obsession came its inevitable, plentiful opposition: a cavalcade of obstacles meant to prevent her ascent to the skies…
Cherry
Once Cherry finally gave in to its constantly whispered requests and wore the black ring to cheerleading practice, things escalated quickly…
Krystal
Krystal had spent countless hours in the woods around the cabin, silently stalking any prey she could track, gradually maturing into a fearsome apex predator undaunted by any kind of weather. It was what she'd always done when her mother would bring her up to the mountains and then disappear into the wilderness to perform her “rituals,” but this time felt different…
Xia
The singular face of Xia, attending an eclectic gallery opening in several alternate dimensions simultaneously…
Kenise
Most guests at an art opening, particularly one located in a sizable outdoor sculpture garden, showed up with maximum intent to schmooze. Kenise, on the other hand, became schmoozed out especially swiftly, and thus preferred to sneak away and absorb herself in sketching…
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