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Randall grunted and licked his lips. Barbequed dog hair? He exhaled. Ugh, no, that’s my own breath. Also, ow. He forced an eye open, and sat upright with a start, head throbbing. This was not his apartment. Fuzzy memories clawed their way back to the surface. Drinks after work with Colin to celebrate their contract win. Hey, that two…

The new city council was in its first session, sitting around a small table in relative darkness, lit by a single candle. Despite the discomfort of the room’s low ambient temperature, the fireplace was out. Antonia, Magistrate of the Isle of Curth following the untimely death of her husband five years ago, considered the group…

“I’m sorry, Billy. Really, we all are. Let me try to explain again.” The professor thought back over the last three days. He wondered again what this meant for his grant proposal to continue such field excavations with high school students in the future. The four members of his research team, and three high school…

Archwizard Stefan Sternenlicht hefted the small sack of coins in his right hand, the rough fabric immediately scratching and itchy. He dropped the sack in a desk drawer and turned to the young man sitting upright in an overstuffed chair in front of Stefan’s desk. The bowtie was a nice accent to the full suit,…

The Archives remembered who originally built the Lattice. The Scientist used to know too, but he had been so busy enjoying himself with the study of this Lattice sector, and for so many Iterations, that it didn’t really matter. The red, green, blue points of light, spaced in regular cubic geometry, were his to explore.…