Midgard Station, Antartica Noriko Null drinks the sixth espresso cup of the morning, looking at an interactive map of Earth. To use an understatement, it doesn’t look good. Now that the Endless Winter is no longer stabilizing the heat to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Antarctica Max Black a.k.a. Quantum blows on his hands to warm them; he’s wearing a thermal suit, but the environment isn’t forgiving and he’s saving his strength before he transforms into energy. He watches Noriko Null release a couple dozen[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Midgard Station, Antarctica In front of a large window over a frozen valley of Earth’s coldest continent, Noriko Null is relaxing inside a bathtub of expensive hinoki wood. It was perhaps a little indulgent to include a traditional Japanese bath[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are more than seven billion people on Earth. Millions of different points of view, beliefs and experiences. But today, on every continent, all of them feel the same thing: cold. Less than one hour after the Winter King has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The bed is uncomfortable, and Noriko Null soon finds out she can’t move. Her eyes take a few seconds to adjust to the brightness, and when they do the first thing she sees is her mother’s face. <You look good,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Leiko Tanaka observes the fight between Torn and the Winter King from the bridge of the monarch’s mothership, concentrating on the data analyzed by the computers. Even with the incredibly advanced technology of the Lar, the powers of a Demon[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Earth’s orbit What used to be empty space just a few decades ago is now littered with hundreds of satellites, commercial and not. Today there’s something quite unusual among them: a solid block of ice, holding a woman. Until she[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Four Seasons Hotel, Cairo Yong-Su Kim helps Noriko Null put on her green leather jacket, while she tries to avoid making eye contact. She’s following the news: they’re talking about the sudden appearance of an alien structure above Djoser’s Pyramid,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Neptune, 3 billion miles from Earth The blue planet is a beautiful and majestic sight rarely witnessed by mortals, almost four times larger than Earth yet seventeen times more massive. Leiko Tanaka never imagined that she would see it with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Roseau, Commonwealth of Dominica This small island nation in the Caribbean Sea is not exactly accustomed to being the center of attention, which is why there aren’t any photographers outside the Ministry of Finance. Anywhere else, someone would’ve already taken[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
