CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: LITTLE DARK AGE
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Damara Megido of Alternia jolted awake as she felt a tremor rock the house.
Her eyes darted around the room, instinctively searching for danger, and when she found none, she immediately reached for the curtains on the window beside her, pulling them aside. The sky outside was as dark as ever for a planet stuck in eternal night and winter, but instead of the now-famili...
2022-10-11 04:08:59 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: SHE HELD THE WORLD UPON A STRING
If the city had been dark before, Cronus might as well be stuck in some lightless hell right now.
His first thought, upon waking up to complete darkness, was that he was dead again. But – no, he knew what being dead felt like. For one, there was never any need to breathe. Breath was a luxury afforded to the living. Plenty of ghosts still did the motion out of reflex, but there was no gasping, clawing need for ...
2022-10-04 08:19:06 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER TWENTY: TEENAGERS SCARE THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF ME
JANUARY 27, 2014
NEW YORK CITY
In Cronus’ defense, he did assess the situation as best as he could, and came to the conclusion that not only did Eridan look like he was only held together by spite and unhingedness, he also looked a little too attached to the girl who stood on top the end of the world.
While the boy aimed the rifle at his face, he’d kept Jaeg...
2022-09-30 06:57:47 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER NINETEEN: BREAKDOWN! BREAKDOWN!
JANUARY 27, 2014
NEW YORK CITY
Eridan should have shot him right in the hallway.
For the sake for the children, though, and Jaeger who had been right behind him, he refrained from turning the room into a slasher’s movie set, and instead let the asshole in to explain himself. The human he was with turned out to be his tour guide through the city, unwittingly roped into the prick...
2022-09-23 06:45:06 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: WHETHER NEAR OR FAR
“Where are we?”
It was a beach, clearly – white sand splashed between the spaces of Terezi’s toes, prompting her to curl said toes at the unwanted texture, the blue sky spread wide overhead, near-cloudless with only a few wisps drifting about here and there, and beyond them, as far as the eye could see, the cool blue ocean, lapping its waves onto the shore while people dove into it or dragged others into it with much g...
2022-09-16 02:50:33 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: ALL WAS GOLDEN IN THE SKY
At the back of the truck, Jeremiah and Eugene smacked their hands on the roof of the vehicle rhythmically, loudly singing along to the song blaring on the Bluetooth radio.
“WELL HE WAS JUST HANGING AROUND! THEN HE FELL IN LOVE!”
Hal twisted in the passenger seat to look through the small glass window that gave him a view of the others sitting with the coolers and umbrellas at the back, snickering when...
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CHAPTER SIXTEEN: I AM OUT OF MY MIND, THROWING A LINE OUT TO SEA (TO SEE IF I CAN CATCH A DREAM)
Both of them are silent as they make their way back to shore, soaked to the bone in seawater, cold from both the winds around them and the new revelations that have been dropped on each of them.
The wind seemed to curl about the Sun protectively the whole way back, and in the corner of Dirk’s vision, he thought he could see it form the outline of a person, worriedly ...
2022-08-31 07:50:28 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN: I ONLY WANT WHAT I CAN'T HAVE
KISARAGI ISLAND
“You’re sure you want to look at the tear?” the Sun God asked for the umpteenth time, turning back towards Dirk to check that he was still following behind him.
“Yes,” Dirk said, eyes straight ahead at the storm clouds. From where he was flying, he couldn’t see any rips in space, only the dark, roiling shapes of the clouds ahead, occasionally glowing with flashes of l...
2022-08-26 06:40:35 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE PLACES THAT WE NEVER SHOULD HAVE LEFT
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“Bluuuuuuh, school’s so exhausting.”
Hal spun in his office chair to watch Sapphrel flop face-first into the bed, their schoolbag – still on their bag – making concerning rattling noises as it hit their back. Hopefully none of their stuff broke, as for a kid who came from such a notorious family, they were staunchly frugal. Came from years of growing up withou...
2022-08-18 06:37:42 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN: CAME BACK LIKE A WAVE WHEN I WAS FEELING ALRIGHT
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"Stand up."
From where he was lying on the floor, Dave exhaustedly dragged his gaze from the tiles to his Bro, standing over him with his katana in hand, pointed down and to the side.
His calves hurt. His arms hurt. There was a nasty gash across his stomach that wasn't deep enough to be fatal but still marked his skin enough to smart. Looming above him, his Bro didn...
2022-08-12 05:11:30 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER ELEVEN: FROM NOW ON WE ARE ENEMIES
Everything hurt.
There was a huge fucking hole in Kanaya Maryam’s stomach, jade blood and intestines slowly leaking out of it as she tried her best to tie the sash around her injured midriff, just like she’d done before all those years ago. Because this was supposed to be the past, this was supposed to have passed already, she’d already lived through this and suffered through weeks of hobbling around with a...
2022-07-21 06:18:18 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER TEN: I’M JUST THE MAN ON THE BALCONY, SINGING, “NOBODY WILL EVER REMEMBER ME.”
LAND OF SNOW AND STARS
“Nobodyhas seen where the hell Dirk Strider went?” Dualscar threw his hands up, volume raising in frustration. It was morning now – or morning-ish, by the clock’s standards, so he didn’t have to worry about keeping his voice down, but several of the children at the dinner table shot him a glare through the open doo...
2022-07-14 02:05:55 +0000 UTC
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JANUARY 21, 2014
NIGHT VALE
Sapphrel Angeles was the stupidest person Hal Strider had ever met.
He’d declined Jeremiah’s offer to help fix his face up; there wasn’t much superglue could do aside from make it uncomfortable, anyway. With how he could somehow feel sensation now even when the Anathema Point was dead, he didn’t want to know how having chemicals squeezed into a crack in his cheek was going to feel like, so he’d passed an...
2022-07-05 06:22:59 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER EIGHT: A DOWNWARD SPIRAL’S JUST A PIROUETTE
Nothing was working.
While John hadn’t popped about time and space in a long, long while, the last time he had done so was seared into his memory. He’d followed Terezi’s instructions and used her psychological triggers to help him hone in on the right spots in the timeline; moving around freely through reality had come to him as naturally as air seeped through cracks. It was easy – it was...
2022-06-21 07:30:07 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER SEVEN: DIRK STRIDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY
LAND OF SNOW AND STARS
There was a dull thump from the dumbwaiter. Dualscar jolted awake, nearly falling off the couch as he did, head swiveling towards where the sound had come from.
The Vantas kid wasn’t here, so he must have been asleep. The Handmaid was asleep on one of the loveseats, a blanket draped over her. Nightwalker was slumped over the table, arms fol...
2022-04-22 07:58:50 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER FOUR: WOULD YOU LIE WITH ME AND JUST FORGET THE WORLD?
THE LAND OF SNOW AND STARS
Time actually passed in the cabin – on the planet, in fact – and so without the advantage of existing in a place outside of it and being able to interact with any point in time that they chose, Kankri Vantas, Orphaner Dualscar and the Handmaid slept in the lull of activity that was waiting for Nightwalker’s dead contacts to get back to him. There were p...
2022-03-25 07:30:56 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER THREE: IF I LAY HERE
“How would the Heir of Blood be connected to someone from a completely different universe?” Nightwalker narrowed his eyes, tone accusing as he glared at Dualscar.
“That’s what I asked,” Dualscar said, crossing his arms.
“No, how would – ” Nightwalker pinched the bridge of his nose, and then huffed, looking away. He took a deep breath a second later, and asked, “Why is that the first thing that comes into your mi...
2022-03-18 13:40:26 +0000 UTC
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THE LAND OF SNOW AND STARS
The Ampora boy was sulking.
The Heir had described him to be childish at times, but the extent as to how childish, Damara Megido of Alternia had not fully grasped until that moment. He refused to eat. He didn’t bother changing into warmer clothes even when they were in a cabin surrounded by snow. He sat by the window with his knees tucked close to him, glaring down at the floor, and growling at anyone who dared come c...
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