“The key to hiding your identity–” Jester Bee groaned, slouching in her seat as the Sage froze on the screen.
Medical Intervention Required
“Hello, Ms. Willson I’m–” I could practically hear the polite introduction turn into frustration as the doctor cut himself off. “You,” he finished instead dropping his tablet to his side as he looked at me.
Rough Ride
Baldric Joffrey slid onto the lift’s seat, turning his tablet face down. The driver glanced at him in the mirror, his slate gray skin only momentarily startling. Joffrey glanced at the driver’s neck. It lacked the tell-tell mark of a bot. Humanoid then.
Cooped
Ollie felt blind. Out of the loop, and she hated feeling blind.
Ollie couldn’t even rankle Josephine Maria Ziegler for cooping them up. Even if Ollie reckoned she’d deserved some rankling after vexing time getting her here.
Bargain Offered
Darkel strode down Gerdinthrall’s corridor ignoring the leers cast at him through each cell door’s narrow, slotted opening. Paying them heed did him no good. Darkel had caused the entire plane anxiety. They were annoyances.
Bound and Unbound
“He arrested the nurse?” The quiet voice sounded loud in the still hallway. Even still, Arren couldn’t place the speaker in the eerily calm, yet packed hallway. The movement of speaking had been hidden.
Heroic Yet
Dranalin tapped one hand against the other as she paced. In her mind, she heard the cries of the crowd beyond the keep. She knew the sound could not breach the walls, but she remembered from when she had hauled Darkel, Lord of the Frost, into the keep.
Claiming Light
Meerthyn stood before her mentor’s desk watching the two jars laid upon it. One held his light. The other hers.
In Confusion’s Time
“If a fence could talk, this one would sound confused.” Beorrice tapped the wooden planks with his cane and quirked his eyebrow at me.
Blindsided
Simon stared at the screen in disbelief as Cadence made her way through the simulation heedless of every challenge he threw before her. Not one in dozens of candidates he’d pushed from the program had progressed this far. Nearly the end.