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…

Dani
Dani often dreamt she was jumping around an inflatable bounce house, but she'd never before woken up in one…
Astraea
Astraea, in her backyard, on Mount Olympus, presumably…
Elli
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…
Tiziana
Tiziana knew by now that she was not really in a magical forest, but she still couldn't help frequently forgetting that fact, because the forest was very good at pretending to be a forest, and even better at pretending to be magical…
Kienna
Kienna, working the night shift at the mermaid tadpole nursery…
Saffron
What Saffron missed most about smoking was having a reason to compel her to take smoke breaks. So she started feeding the birds…
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…
Angelia
Angelia, waiting to catch a flight home…
Arae
Arae (and... Friend?) wishing you a smile-free (yet still happy) Halloween season…
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