((First off, I'm very sorry about the wait on this. "A few days" turned into a few months. Between computer problems and a crazy fluctuating work schedule... excuses, apologies ( Read more... )

*On what is, in relative local time, a Monday afternoon in a cold month of the early twenty-first century, a message arrives on Ali's pinpoint, with the usual terse delivery of its author ( Read more... )

*After being patched up by Dr. Phlox, and seeing the rest of the night through with Ali, Samus returned to the safe-house in Maine. She intended to take the day to decompress, and give Ali the same time. Now, as evening fell, she made her way back to her lover's home to deliver an invitation ( Read more... )

*Samus Aran is not a woman to cross. Where others make threats, she makes statements of fact. Where others warn, she acts. And where others play a cautious, sensible game of Monopoly, she gambles big on her first time through and comes out the winner by luck alone ( Read more... )