malara tor's penthouse

Violet lugged her backpack into the elevator and punched the button to bring her up to the penthouse. She looked at the spot where Chloe had hidden her sigil in there. "Hey sis, hope your day's going well. She wasn't entirely expecting to hear an answer, but she got one. Chloe's disembodied...

Ana had had enough of waiting. She was degrading faster than she thought and it wouldn't be long before she keeled over and all of this was over. It wasn't revenge she wanted, not really. Dying and leaving Dalia to suffer wasn't the plan. Sure, it would be a nice consolation prize if she...

It didn't make sense. By no standard was any sense made. When he'd heard Mal might be in trouble, his first thought had been oh no Mal, and then he'd remembered that Mal was a million year old war goddess who didn't need no man to save her, and had the thought oh no, whoever's threatening Mal...

It sure as hell wasn't the first time Jackal had been in Malara's penthouse, and he hoped it wasn't going to be the last, either. Today was the day they were going to sit down and... and what? Work it out, he guessed. Jackal hadn't dated anyone since Ralf, and that had been pretty much the grand...

It was late. Late and Dalia still couldn't sleep. She'd eventually started coming home, but just to sleep. Not even eat. She didn't want to even look at Phaedra, let alone possibly speak to her. But now the knot in her stomach made her so queasy that she couldn't even do the one thing she came...

Phaedra stood in the elevator as it ascended to Malara's penthouse. It seemed like a lifetime since she had been here. So many memories flooded back to her as she watched the numbered floors ding and pass by. Memories of her early life. Her sisters, her family. Malara, Chloe, her mother. Izziel...

Chloe had double-checked, and everything was in its proper place. Not just in here, but out in government offices too. She had appointments set up to get Izziel registered with the city and with the school, she had paperwork together saying she would take some degree of responsibility for him...

Chloe's run-in with Xavier had shaken her. She was taking extreme measures again, which tended to make people think she was paranoid. Chloe preferred to see it as managing risk. For example, she didn't want to be exposed walking between classes. If she had an enemy trying to kill her or see her...

Ghum had prepared for this moment for a long time. Well when he realized it was actually possible for him to get rid of the annoying hold his father had over him. He could finally be rid of Dionte's body and stop living his life because honestly? Ghum could not deal with Dionte's shitty back...

There was a flash of rainbow light on Circle Bed. A second later, Malara was lying in bed, staring at the ceiling. Jackal, Thani, and the others would see her note apologizing for leaving early. But she couldn't be on that fucking ship another day. And they'd be back by the weekend. She slowly...

The first school week of Malara's absence went reasonably well. Nobody liked that she was gone, of course, but Chloe understood why she had to be gone. Jafar was still missing, and too many lives hung in the balance for Malara not to get personally involved. Chloe was even proud of her. She had...

One last time, before the ritual began, Chloe double-checked to make sure everything was in its proper place. First, she checked the summoning circle. The sigils, the names, the ancillary structures and runes that she'd added, the candles. Everything was drawn with the correct ink, she had the...

Chloe's math professor was making sounds with his mouth. If she gave it enough thought, she could probably start understanding those sounds as words, and those words as parts of sentences. But as things stood, his voice just registered as background noise. It joined the whining fluorescent light...

Kofi paced back and forth in front of the entrance several times. Yeah it looked odd for someone to just be doing that but Kofi held a phone close to his ear. To passerbyers and pretty much everyone else it looked like he was just having a simple conversation on the phone. Or well, a very...

Malara's home is as lavish as the goddess herself. A high rise penthouse apartment as close to the coast as living downtown will allow, it is modern with a touch of barbaric aesthetic that only Malara could have dreamed up. Weapons, both functional and decorative, adorn the walls of the...

2/3 plus 1/6? Easy! Its 5/6! 7/16 minus 1/4? Simple, its 3/16. 3/21 times by 5/8? Errr... 15/168? Wait she can reduce it by a factor 3 so it would it be 5/59! She had to admit, working with fractions was a little more challenging than she would like to let on. Still, she feels that she...

"YOU DONT FUCKING UNDERSTAND ME....." Phaedra screamed before slamming the door to her room. She Stomped over to her bed, her eight legs clicking loudly as she skittered over the floor. She let out another frustrated shriek before throwing her pillows across the room. They landed neatly in a web...

Chloe had become a bit of a stay at home mom, lately - with an emphasis on staying at home. She avoided leaving the house for any reason, and tried to keep the children home too. This met with limited success; Dalia and Amber in particular had so many friends they wanted to see again after their...

June 5, 2017. Amber couldn't be sure how long she had been in the underground facility. Without the sun and with no real sense of time, it could have been days or weeks. All she could be sure of was the schedule of the testing. Everyone would be woken up to eat and some people would be...