*Samus threw herself into her favored couch with a sigh, silently cursing herself. How could she have been so blind? Why hadn't it ever occured to her? Barring accident, disease, and violence human lifespans could measure in centuries--longer, with cyberization or nanosurgery. Her parents were dead, certainly, but what of their parents? Had they ( Read more... )

*Samus stepped through a portal into her room in Stormhold, humming quietly to herself. Of course, at first glance, the hunched creature with mottled blue-gray skin, fangs jutting up from an underslung jaw, and large, limpid eyes didn't much resemble the bounty hunter. Some of her cover identities required more elaborate costuming than others. She ( Read more... )