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.
Mae
Many girls in many dimensions, one mysterious piece of jewelry…
Talula
Talula had come to prefer hosting her own gatherings rather than visiting anyone else's home, as few other hosts turned out to be amenable to the trail of flora that sprang up from whatever surface she'd just stepped upon. She was gradually training herself to control the appearance and rate of growth of this vegetative trail, but for the moment it was still beyond her ability to stop it completely…
Gia
Gia, about to bring the hammer down…
Brandy
Brandy had returned to the temple that she thought was her home, until she tried to leave again. Her main hall no longer led outside, but simply repeated itself, extending farther than she could see…
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…
Nona
Nona, waiting for a bullet train to 198X…
Elisa
Elisa, trying to figure out just what, exactly, this random street fair is celebrating…
Xia
The singular face of Xia, attending an eclectic gallery opening in several alternate dimensions simultaneously…
Giuliana
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.
Lilith
Lilith, listening carefully for the next instruction from the black ring…