"She’s waking up now." Doctor Cruz smiles at us sweetly before turning to face Cassiel. Her cheeks warm into a rosy red as my cute angel wakes up from the deepest sleep of her life. Cassiel blinks slowly and winces, despite the low light in the room. Her eyes are unfocused and hazy as she…
An alert blinks on the display before me. I can only stare at it in stunned silence for several seconds, before glancing over at Samantha. She’s sleeping quietly in her wheelchair, and rest is something she desperately needs, but… I climb out of the Captain’s chair and wheeze as I stumble over to her, then…
A field of grass set ablaze. Smoke and fire roar in the distance and the heavens themselves split as lightning smashes into the ground around me. Samantha pulls herself across the charred field and reaches toward me, "Cassiel… help, please!" Satan appears behind her, and a lustful twinkle appears in his eyes. "You won’t escape."…
Cautiously, I eye the battle plan for what must be the twenty-third time. "Elder Kryios, is the ambush in place?" Kryios runs a finger through her black hair, and her holographic image fizzles for a moment as the time-lag catches up. "Yes, Elder Basil. You really must learn to be less anxious. Ten of our…
The girls and I emerge from the Voldarian portal and step onto our ship’s bridge, with Ionis popping through a second later. I seal the portal up and sigh. "I’m going to miss the feeling of grass under my feet." "And sun in the sky," Samantha chimes in, as she slumps into her seat at…
"Aaaaaiiieeehh!!" A horrible scream, one that might curdle milk if I were holding any, blasts out of Dosena’s mouth, as she leaps backward in fright, toppling over her chair and falling on her back. An instant later, before I can try to calm her down, an invisible force smashes my body against the wall behind…
A peaceful meadow. Flowers are blooming, the small sun in the sky beams down rays of warmth, the wind isn’t blowing, but it could be if this planet had anything resembling a pressure system, and all is well on the very small planet of Voldarius. The four of us step out of the portal and…
A far more cheerful Cassiel and I enter the lunch hall, and we spot Samantha doing her exercises. This time, she’s standing on a single toe and bending over backward in the most gravity-defying stunt I’ve ever seen, with her other leg stretched out in front of herself to balance the rest of her body,…
Marie’s rapid exit leaves me standing alone on the bridge, with only the Sentinel and the air between us. The giant murder-machine stares at me silently, and finally I pull away from his singular gaze. "Ionis, given you know more about the Volgrim than me, would you be willing to look through the data Marie…
YOU WILL TAKE ME TO THE FOUNDERS. Ionis shines his singular blood red eye on me, staring at me without moving. The Robot stands eight feet tall, a full half head higher than me, and I get the distinct impression he would look down on me even if I were twice his height. His order…
