Wren

Mae, honestly not all that surprised to confirm that giving herself an impromptu tarot reading at the behest of a whispered voice emanating from a black ring would have immediate and particularly harrowing repercussions…

Jillian, either at a night club with a very specific theme, or at the base of Devil's Tower about to be taken on a hyperspace joyride…

Paris, in Paris, albeit in an alternate dimension…

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…

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.

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

Gia, about to bring the hammer down…

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

Tiziana knew by now that she was not really in a magical forest, but she still couldn't help frequently forgetting that fact, because the forest was very good at pretending to be a forest, and even better at pretending to be magical…