The safe house, Manhattan Kari Zel winces as she touches the bandage on her stomach, and doctor Kalama immediately reprimands her for the action: <Don’t touch that, or the stitches will come off. It’s a pretty serious wound.> <I’ve had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Null Tower, New York City The building is known worldwide for being the headquarters of Earth’s most powerful company; pictures of its futuristic laboratories have been carefully leaked to the press in the past. What’s not generally known is that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Null Tower, New York City Dr. Catherine Kalama is normally a very calm person: it’s extremely rare to see her lose her temper, and it’s never on the job. But now she’s yelling at her only patient, Noriko Null, while[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Argos, 100 light-years from Earth Selene is disappointed. She lands on the ruins of Prometheus Square, devastated by the fragments of the Argos Fleet that rained on the city after her arrival. The ships that used to defend this planet[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Argos, 100 light-years from Earth Ever since they’ve met her, Vesta’s friends have seen her react to her family with mixed feelings: she wanted to see them after 25 hundred years of exile, but they mostly wanted to kill her.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Hellfire Chapel, Hell With the Pandemonium destroyed, this is Hell’s most prestigious building: a colossal hall, similar to an oversized version of a baroque church. The effects of the battle with Abyss are still visible, though, since the roof[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Inside Noriko Null’s mind The white room has no door, no window, no anything. Just a floating computer from the 1980s and a chair, where Noriko Null is sitting motionless. Kari Zel checks her pulse: she’s alive, but completely inert.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nowhere Kari Zel is five years old. A scrawny little thing, malnourished after weeks of surviving with whatever she could find on her own. She’s trying to run, but there’s so little energy into her young body that she collapses.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nowhere Kari Zel hits the ground hard. She doesn’t know where she is: the last thing she recalls is her trying to stop Torn from killing Noriko; but it’s hard to think, with how hard the wind is blowing. She[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Somewhere in Hell Kari Zel wakes up feeling more exhausted than ever. It’s hot and her back hurts; she’s been sleeping on a flat surface. She tries to speak, but her mouth is so dry she only mumbles. <It’s okay,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
