OUT OF TIME
Margriss reached up and ran her hand along 4H12B5’s cranial dome. The plasti-steel dome that made up the top part of the young female’s head was transparent, the small pink brain clearly visible within that dome, that dome a replacement of skull that began just above the eyebrows. There were quick flashes of brightly-colored lights along the small pink brain, as the nano-coating over that brain was reacting to Margriss’s immediate instructions…
THE VENUS ROSE
Michelle turned and carefully lowered the white hood over Chastity’s head, revealing the young woman’s face and bald head. Chastity was in a white robe with gold filigree along the hems, so seeing her true face exposed had to be a shock for the ‘older’ woman. The young and mentally-unstable bald woman was drooling and glazy-eyed, so the tranquilizer was definitely doing its work…
JILL S. SMITH’S SUMMER VACATION
This man was indeed tall, at least six-foot-five, a full foot taller than Jill. He wore his grey business suit well, along with a white button-up dress shirt, a red tie, and fine black dress shoes. His hands were covered by fine grey velvet gloves. He had well-sculpted short black hair in a business cut, but she could not see his face because he wore a mask…
UNBOUND
JAN 10TH: HANDHELD TRANSCEIVER 14: You don’t need to. You’ll occasionally come across a WAND, something that’s definitely not ours. Just catalogue it in Room 1. That’s the WAND room.
JAN 10TH: HANDHELD TRANSCEIVER 81: Oooooh, that’s why there were no Matocha Publishing books in 1. I was wondering about that. There were a few books in there that were from other companies. I thought that was weird. I really was wondering about that...
HOUDINI
She took the initiative and opened her office door. She did not take five steps before she was rushed by her own personal secretary, the once-living Shanarina. This young woman was now a husk, her once peach-colored skin withered and dried like a pitted prune, her eyes bulging white orbs, the mummified lips pulled back to reveal the ivory pegs of her teeth, the body skeletal in comparison to the royal blue outfit surrounding it, an outfit identical to Debrina’s own, only different in color…
THE MARK OF THE PRINCESS
A huge wolf made of blue flame twisted into reality as that flaming wolf twisted again into something even darker: a man-like wolf standing on two bent legs. It pointed one blue-flaming clawed finger at Saffron, and she had felt that finger stab right through her, right across the room, stabbing through her very soul, right down into the depths of it, and Saffron didn’t even believe in souls. She’d just thought everything rotted away to dust after death…
