Bert woke up alone, when he knew he wasn't when he fell asleep. Since he didn't wake up Gisela, she probably overslept and was pissed at him. He wondered if he should avoid her for a bit so she can cool down - that is, if he knew where to find her. He went into the infirmary proper and the medic on duty had said he was allowed to leave, but to not ( Read more... )

Anissina woke up alone and a little disoriented. Gwendal was no longer with her, but he was a busy man. She got herself together and had a bath and lunch. She was about to head back to the lab, but decided to see how things were ( Read more... )

Anissina spent most of the night helping in the infirmary to relieve some of the healers of monotonous duties and doing some of the less intricate things that she would leave to the healers themselves. She had a few potions she created to help with certain ailments, but not too many for general blunt trauma. Her bottle was coming in quite handy and ( Read more... )

Bert had been on his way to the dining room when the explosion happened. He wasn't at ground zero, but he wasn't too far from it. The floor shook violently and bits of rock were crumbling down. There was one of the maids carrying a basket of laundry coming the opposite direction when the blast occurred. As unsafe as the wall was, he still held it ( Read more... )

A precarious moment exists between rest and consciousness, the moment when one is awake behind closed eyes. Time and time again had proven the benefit of reaping its vantage, and Alford was almost unaware of the effort he made to steady his breathing. Mental inventory helped him assume his limbs were intact, and the pressure of constraints absent. ( Read more... )

Anissina left Wolfram with a head full of questions. She would have pressed the boy for more answers, but he was obviously in need of sleep. Though, he was sitting outside ( Read more... )

Wolf sat on the bench with his head buried in his hands. Another day had passed with everyone so busy he had not yet been able to get to the temple. He couldn’t sleep and he didn’t want to bother Yuuri who had his own issues and wasn’t all that comfortable sleeping in the same bed with a guy anyway. Why were things so wrong again? He’d felt so good ( Read more... )

Something was stirring in the air that gave the ashen-haired mazoku a bad vibe as he stared out his window with his hands clasped in prayer. These past few occurrences have been more than odd to say the least. He believed in Shinou however the disturbance he felt within his chest was too unsettling for him to continue on like this. The ( Read more... )

Ken looked up at the gates of the castle, then over to the woman beside him. There was a question on his face, though she couldn’t see it. He’d seen the castle from a distance, many times, but never dreamed of walking right into it. But Julia was smiling. No, smirking. Her face, her posture, even the magic the radiated off her - there wasn’t a ( Read more... )

The planet was a harsh one with two suns far enough away to ensure that it wasn't a desert.  It had breathable atmosphere and was hot and humid.. The sphere was 85% jungle with vast quantities of reptilian and insect species. Their scales were very useful in making biological armor, hence the weapons facility. The drones at the facility had already ( Read more... )