Author: Zando
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Haaviq Aqui
Her sleep cycle wasn’t the most productive. The bed was warm and soft, but had a unique smell, comprising years of cleaning materials and laundry detergents. She could barely make out the scent of previous occupants. The faint smell of perfumes and fragrance could never be fully cleaned out of…
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3 – Glifid
“Hey- hey come on” Nalina called across the creek bed. Her voice carried down the barren rocks. “Come on boy- where did you go?” It was the third day in a row she had returned to the same creek at which she had encountered the umbra raptor. The first day…
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2 – Encounter at the Creek
The school bell rang in the distance. If Nalina had been in school, she would be lining up with all the other children. It’d be a quick walk to the tram station to ride out to the Eastside, then either walk or accept a carriage ride to the homestead. The…
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1 – Atriv
“There it is,” someone said. A solemn murmur stirred through the crowd. Nalina glanced upwards, towards the horizon. The deep lapis hues of night were just beginning to fill that flat edge of sky. Yet within that sky, an unmistakable glimmer flared into view as it caught the taulight. Too…
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Icthara Orbital
There was no peaceful rousing for Eppli. As the fog and amnesia of stasis faded, she first became aware of two UOSR spacers floating over her. The baseline humans prodded her face with a glowing sensor. “Oh, that eye movement looks deliberate,” said one. “Might just be a boot sequence”…
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Bailout
Boundless desolation loomed beneath Nalina. The near-perfect flatness of the desert was an uncanny sight. It was though an endlessly flat parchment stretched out in all directions, cream of color and devoid of all but the most subtle texture. The wind whistled and her ears popped as she descended. Her…
Hibour 