Tag: science-fiction

There is a dumpster. I cower below it, one hand on the rusty metal. If it smells, I’m not truly aware enough to notice. Finger in the back of my brain, digging, digging, scratching, scratching. I left the motel room - I don’t know why. Maybe just couldn’t stay there anymore, not after what happened.… Continue reading 1.33 – The Poison →

Hungover to the point of an imaginary vise grip squeezing at her temples, dreading the onslaught of attention and the eyes that will befall her, Bedevil hesitates at the entrance of the Houston Shrine. As soon as she enters, she’s done. She’ll lose her title. Her engram count has already been slipping over the last… Continue reading 1.32 – The World’s Worst Person →

I tell her everything. I dissect my life with bloody knives and lay it all on the table. She listens, enraptured by how I lived in the lab, how I escaped with Paul, how I ended up in Houston. When I finish, we sit there for Metis knows how long. Silence full of tears. If… Continue reading 1.31 – The Knife That Slays You Both →

People talk about Megajoule like he was a god. Normally, I’d shrug it off or scoff the way I do about other capes. But I only have a fraction of his power, and when I bring it to bear, I can’t help but wonder whether maybe Megajoule really was something divine. “Yes!” He cries, and… Continue reading 1.30 – A Fraction of His Power →

Flashfire groans in my arms as I alight in the Rothko chapel, my mind still reeling from what just happened. Mateo taken from me, no way to get him back. He’s with the Vanguard, now, but I’m already thinking of how I can rescue him. I’ll dig information out of Flashfire… I’ll get in touch… Continue reading 1.29 – Just as Bad as the Capes →

“This is the right thing to do,” Bedevil tells herself as the trap springs into place. She ignores the bloom of guilt… As soon as Home Run called her yesterday, she informed the Houston Heroes and her mother, and they drew up a plan to capture Home Run and the Front, and potentially even Pandahead, all… Continue reading 1.28 – Two Birds, One Stone →

I might be a little dumb. A bull with a vase and all that. But I’m not stupid. When Kitsune told me she had a lead on Pandahead and Marskin, I knew I had a chance to make up for what I did in the Null Domain. If I didn’t pull the man’s helmet off,… Continue reading 1.27 – An Appetite for Experiences →

Bedevil shouldn’t feel guilty about slinking around the Shrine’s computer lab this late at night, but she does. Something about the entire thing feels so clandestine. Maybe it’s because she’s not explicitly following up on a lead on Home Run. Instead, she’s trying to splice together footage from drones around PK Resonance’s main campus in… Continue reading 1.26 – Compared to the Devil →