Rhea

Although initially fascinated when they first appeared, Orico quickly came to realize that if she wanted to be able to continue lounging on the roof of her building with Larry the lizard, something drastic was going to have to be done about the gargoyles…

Starla used to have a black thumb. Then she found the black ring…

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…

The singular face of Xia, attending an eclectic gallery opening in several alternate dimensions simultaneously…

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…

Fiola, visiting her favorite species at an otherworldly aquarium…

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

Zuira put on the black ring and wished for snow…

Arae (and... Friend?) wishing you a smile-free (yet still happy) Halloween season…