Kienna

What Saffron missed most about smoking was having a reason to compel her to take smoke breaks. So she started feeding the birds…

Augusta, haunted by the many ghosts of her childhood…

Like any artist in her gallery's stable who desired to remain as such, Xerew was required to attend all opening night celebrations during which at least one of her works hung on the walls. But instead of schmoozing & selling herself or her paintings (as the gallery would obviously prefer she do), she tended to find herself more interested in determining who amongst the crowd was actually human (and if so, just how human).

Katharina, taking sweet, sweet revenge…

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…

Although initially fascinated when they first appeared, Orico quickly came to realize that if she wanted to be able to continue lounging on the roof of her building with Larry the lizard, something drastic was going to have to be done about the gargoyles…

Cleo, performing a surprisingly effective creativity ritual in her studio…

Maya, lost in illusion…

Ryder, suddenly becoming very aware why no one else was eager to throw a party in this particular abandoned warehouse…

Nyx, amongst the orbs, avoiding self-reflection…