Tarpes hadn’t really known where they would end up at. He’d only prayed that Lady Luck still smiled upon him with her radiating happiness. When his feet touched something solid, it was only then that he opened his eyes to look about.
A white, cloud-filled sky stretched over a barren and broken terrain, where ruins of [...]

Her arm snapped to the side. The sound of her gi flicking echoed in the empty room. She brought her arms back, swinging them into an arc and formed the symbol of the rising sun above her head as her right foot slid up onto the pads of her toes, her left leg behind her [...]

The smell of thick dew and molten metel hovered in the air, the sprawled body of a female, curled in a ball, was barely noticeable against the under brush. The form moved, a groaning sound coming from the woman as she rolled onto her back.
Where was she? Who was she?
Her lips barely moved, whispering a [...]

“Ni chan! Ni chan! Why are you crying?”
“Because I just can’t take it anymore, Cloe.”
“But Ni chan, I didn’t hurt myself that badly!” A little girl giggled and then dashed into Haylee’s sight, pigtails on her head bouncing up and down. She spun around on her foot and gave her a big smile, “Come on [...]

“Opposites always balance each other- black, white, predator and prey. The fisherman will be lost without his fish, just like a husband needs a wife to be a husband.” He was an old man, his face crinkled and creased with age, a master at saying the most obvious
of things. Sensei Yuri-san stood before his young [...]

It was the same room she’d been in only hours (days?) before. And now, she was on ground level. People and others were working on things just like before. Many began to stop what they were doing to look a her and Driedell who walked in behind her.
The man behind her made some sort of [...]

The woman sat in one of the many waiting rooms, staring out a large, double paned window. It was night out, the stars flickering in the dark sky. Clouds hovered just east of the horizon, promising rain in the near future.
She was thinking… yet again… of the conversation she had had with the captain. Haylee [...]