Nyx

Elisa, trying to figure out just what, exactly, this random street fair is celebrating…

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…

Farrah, walking home alone from the only club that still stays open until sunrise, wearing the black ring…

At this time of night, Macaria often visits the morgue…

Zuira put on the black ring and wished for snow…

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

Despite having gone to the lake in the woods with a trunk full of costume changes and the express intent to be photographed, Arabella could not shake the eerie sensation that she was being watched by additional, unseen eyes.

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…

Angelia, waiting to catch a flight home…

Viviana, reminiscing about the infinite sadness…