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. She'd never been left alone for this long before. And almost more troublingly, Krystal could have sworn that Lilith had been wearing the black ring when she left for the lake, yet here it was, whispering to her...
Krystal i001 (LVL1)
Krystal i001 (LVL2)
High-Speed Making-Of

Many girls in many dimensions, one mysterious piece of jewelry…

Macaria
At this time of night, Macaria often visits the morgue…
Lucia
Lucia preferred the tranquility of the underwater world to the hectic, more populated surface. She'd worked with the Ocean Reef Group, helping to maintain Nemo's Garden, an agricultural experiment off the coast of the Italian Riviera that grew samples of land-based crops in underwater greenhouses called biospheres. But after storms & the pandemic cut off access to the project for months, the team was pared back to a skeleton crew, & she was cut loose. Not long into her hunt for a new job, she was contacted by a company called Reprion & recruited to work on their research submarine, the Thalassa. Eager to get back underwater, she didn't ask as many questions as she probably should have…
Nyx
Nyx, amongst the orbs, avoiding self-reflection…
Em
Em, paradoxically feeling more than ever like a misfit toy…
Dani
Dani often dreamt she was jumping around an inflatable bounce house, but she'd never before woken up in one…
Parker
Parker, in the future, on her scooter, readying to no longer be parked…
Aannii
Aannii, drinking coffee, in a teacup, in space…
Pherusa
Pherusa doesn't yet own her own guitar, but finds that wherever she goes, she somehow always ends up with one anyway…
Inka
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…
Starla
Starla used to have a black thumb. Then she found the black ring…
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