Viviana

For her 21st birthday, Rǣlia (known to her friends as "Really") decided to organize a celebratory nighttime gathering at Multiversal City theme park. The evening, attended by a dozen or so of the aforementioned friends, included an expansive dinner and mixed drinks, and then more mixing of drinks, and had been perfectly festive and joyous right up until she'd snatched a random bongo drum (from a couch shaped like a boat) and announced that she wanted to start a drum circle. Suddenly, all of her laughing friends were nowhere to be found…

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

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

Zuira put on the black ring and wished for snow…

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…

Kienna, working the night shift at the mermaid tadpole nursery…

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

Renata, trying to stay dry after the show, beginning to wonder what's taking her driver so long…

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

Wren, wondering (or not wondering) what happened to her friend…