Mae

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.

Persephone, enduring her least favorite part of the year…

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).

Raven, aglow with job satisfaction at the Museum of the Odd…

Astraea, in her backyard, on Mount Olympus, presumably…

Not quite alone in the woods, Sybil had an exceptionally clear vision of a very murky immediate future.

Jolie observes an exhibit, and/or is herself an exhibit being observed…

Rosalia had never been a daydreamer. Nor had her dreams at night meant much to her or stuck with her through the days. She was fine with this, blessed with an innate talent to find fulfillment in the pragmatic. What life threw her way, she enjoyed tackling, even when it felt like life was throwing an abundance of pipe wrenches at her ankles…

Dani often dreamt she was jumping around an inflatable bounce house, but she'd never before woken up in one…

Parker, in the future, on her scooter, readying to no longer be parked…