The past three weeks, Wyatt hasn't slept much at all. It's a known fact, broadcast loud and clear by the dark circles under his eyes for all to see. It's only now, roughly a week after Glitch's return from the dead, that he's well and truly succumbed to his own limitations. He's okay. He's alive and well, and real, and somewhere between putting on ( Read more... )

Party clicks on the tablet and it's not the usual place--instead it's a room. It's sparse, but in the background all of the furniture has been upturned, and the door behind him as two interesting additions: a spider logo familiar to anyone who's seen Party's car or street side graffiti, and three locks on top of the ones the place already has. ( Read more... )

The idea, as it had been initially presented, was for citizens to experience what it was like to walk in someone else's shoes. In practice it became discovering what it was like to walk in their own shoes, if their taste in shoes were suddenly quite different from normal. The footwear still fit and was comfy, but the style was quite different ( Read more... )

Jenna had looked high and low for her niece for the last few days, calling Elena, trying to be sure her suspicions were correct and that she wasn't just jumping to conclusions. But after almost a week and no sign of Elena at all, Jenna was forced to admit what she didn't want to face: Elena was gone. And she wasn't coming back ( Read more... )

A skyscraper vanishes. It's autumn-a painter's autumn, the leaves ablaze with color and wind whipping through the streets-the day Don takes the tram to Luthor Plaza and finds a misshapen warehouse with a banner announcing HAWAIIAN BBQ sagging over the entrance. He steps inside still anticipating lobby, elevators, a purposeful bustle. The greasy ( Read more... )

Mattie awoke with the sun as she always does, washed and dressed, the empty sleeve of her left arm pinned up neatly, read her Bible and checked the contents of her larder. Now it's time for cooking breakfast (there's an art to doing it one-handed that she mastered years ago, and carries the burns to prove it), and only now as she sets the table ( Read more... )

In all honesty, Jenna is glad to be back home. Well, as close to home as Taxon can ever get. Since the whole big reveal happened to Jenna and her meeting with Katherine in the Sanctuary, Jenna's been trying to keep as close an eye on Elena as she can. Even so, she can't be there all the time and she's been absent for a lot of things that have ( Read more... )

Fitz took some time surveying his pub's new neighborhood. It was now sharing a square with a Roman villa, a supicious looking apothecary, a yurt, and a dance studio which constantly blared music he vaguely understood to be from "the 80s." At least the parade of fit Extra ladies in leotards and leg warmers provided some decent scenery ( Read more... )

Katherine tosses aside the book she’d been reading. Now what? She’s out of things to amuse herself with and boredom is creeping in. At least talking is an option once more, even if English doesn't seem to be - not for everyone, that is. Katherine still keeps defaulting to her native Bulgarian, but stubbornly, she fights the impulse and forces ( Read more... )

At around noon, the silence was broken. The Extras resumed their idle nonsense chatter, and any citizen checking their tablet would note that voice and video transmission are available again. After a little experimentation they will also realize they have their voices back ( Read more... )