Curt’s head spun as he was pulled through the mirror, then hurt as he dropped onto a cold, hard floor. He saw dirty shoes. He braced his hands against the ground, and pushed himself up, trying to see her, trying to see- She disappeared as a puff of smoke. ‘No!’
Curt dumped the half-empty duffel bag onto the bed. Packing was easy enough. Over a year of living in fear, of not wanting to seem comfortable, of expecting to die. Over a year not decorating his room, not requiring things to keep for more than a few hours meant there was very little that he […]
Daddy help me! Ryan stumbled at the force of the voice in his head. Help me! He grabbed for the railing, and shook as Stef screamed and cried in his head. The sound cut off.
‘This is totally the wrong roof,’ Stef said. Ryan squeezed her hand. ‘I know,’ he said as he looked around the Agency roof. ‘But it’s safer to do it from here.’ She looked across the evening sky, towards the roof where they’d stood to watch Dajulveed’s phoenix, then shook her head. ‘Ok. Ok.’ The red […]
The purple bubble almost seemed to breathe – it expanded slightly, only to contract again. Over and over, breathing more steadily than she was. Please don’t kill me. Taylor growled. Stef blinked, and looked up. ‘Ready?’
The room was amazing, a round table of blue-stained wood under a sky of gold-purple clouds. The forest the bounded their private dining area was a wintry fir forest, branches heavy with snow, flakes drifting through the air, but never touching them. It was beautiful, it was nonsensical, and it was the perfect kind of […]
The memory glass in the windows showed a story on alien window, rain seeming to hit the glass while lightning arced over an unfamiliar city. The glass misted for a moment, then changed to a view of a pebbly beach, smooth purple stones leading out to a quiet sea. No image stayed for more than […]
Curt opened his eyes and stared into the blue. It had never been his favourite colour, preferring reds and browns and cooler oranges. It had been another part of the Agency that had made it seem so alien, so distancing – the cold blues and greys and blacks. It had seemed so dead, so robotic […]
There was a hand on his chest, and he screamed. He spat more blood onto the agent, and wished that- ‘Curt?’ The voice cut through the fear for a second before he tried to crawl away again. Petersen liked to trick him. To make him hear familiar voices, to- Strong hands held him and for […]
Curt blinked as Ryan’s office came into view. His arm burned where Stef had touched it, and he quickly required some burn cream, dressing it as Ryan paced, staring into his office as alarms sounded. This wasn’t normal, this wasn’t one of the dozen times the phoenix had needed to feed. He sent a small […]