As Hana reopened the door that led to Richard’s chambers, she was met with a frightful sight for sore eyes. Zenith was almost dead. His eyes were almost rolling back into his head, the chair he had been set in was almost entirely flat now, and Richard was preparing to cut open his bare skin with a dirty scalpel. As …
Chapter Three: Great Adventures
As Hana gently weaved her way into the building, Zenith and Oyogu followed behind, with Zenith absolutely enamored by what he saw. The interior of the building was hectic in its design. Thick cables ran through messy floating squares that were originally supposed to make up the ceiling inside the tall area. People stood in all different places, chatting about …
Chapter Two: Risk of Rain
The smell of sulfur pounds on Hana’s senses as she walks into the elevator, surrounded by cleaning droids from all angles. As she stands in silence, the paper bag with a gently wrapped cardboard handle crinkles in her hand, reminding her that she still is carrying food. A bot slowly moves a generalized shape of a hand towards the elevator …
Chapter One: “Wake up.”
THIRTEEN HOURS BEFORE CONTACT… MONTH 2, DAY 12, YEAR 2143 A.D. IN AN EXTREMELY ISOLATED UNIVERSE, FAR REMOVED FROM THE ONES LIKE OUR OWN A voice whispered in my ear. “It’s time to wake up,” it whispered again, prompting me to open my eyes. I was met with a dark scene of pine needles laid on the ground. Just thirty …
Prelude
Rain gently falls onto the porous concrete sidewalks, set next to streets that inhabit floating cars and motorcycles. All the people that move are of a million different varieties. Some skin pale as snow, some dark as night, some with features like animals and variances in height upwards of one-and-a-half meters. However similar yet different all these people are, they …