Viviana

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

Samara was charged with protection of the sacred forest. Since early childhood, she had been trained by the Coven in the ancient ways of her peoples' magic. The Dozen Mothers took turns guiding her through the dark woods, each imparting her own share of esoteric knowledge, gradually imbuing her with the power required to hear the breathing of the trees, to communicate in birdsong, to summon lightning from the clouds. Eventually, she began to feel the forest as an extension of herself, or rather, that she herself was an extension of the forest…

Zubaida, glowing and feeling at home on the playa…

Paris, in Paris, albeit in an alternate dimension…

Nona, waiting for a bullet train to 198X…

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

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

Tawai, arriving at a dinner party only to discover that not all of the guests appear to be strictly human…

Sora had been hearing a lot about the Museum of the Odd since her mother Raven had started working there a few months ago, finally piquing her curiosity enough to compel her to apply for a summer internship…

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.