Ryan was careful to ignore the looks of some of his recruits as the pirate followed him back to his office. The stares weren’t impolite, just…incredulous. The sight was strange, to be sure, but in the Agency, strange sights were to be expected. Hook, for his part, said nothing to exacerbate the situation – he […]
Ryan looked to his office door. There had been a knock. His HUD told him it was Stef outside – and she had knocked, instead of shifting in – a sign to be a little worried for her. She went through strange cycles of this – on good days, she would shift straight in, on […]
The journey to the hospital wing of the Lost’s “Agency” – this particular location bore the name of “Sunmote Gardens” – was the same as the trip to Hook’s office, a mix of the almost familiar, overlaid with bright colours, simple magic, and a sense of fun that the corporate atmosphere that the Agency soundly […]
Shifting was a near-instantaneous transport – there was maybe a second or two as you disappeared where you were still aware of the place you were leaving, and less than a second to recognise something about the place you had teleported into. Travelling by mirror had the world go rainbow at the edges, then transport […]
Stef leaned against the railing that prevented idiots from falling into the river. Beside her, Alfie munched on their traditional morning doughnut – a staple of their routine whenever Alfie did the mail run with her.
It was snowing. Stef blinked, unable to reconcile the information. Light flakes fell in front of her eyes, drifting lazily down to form a fresh coat of powder on the-
‘Hey, newb.’ Stef opened her eyes, and saw Curt. ‘Hm?’ He passed her a glass of water. ‘Drink up, you look terrible.’
[Come see me before the meeting?] Stef put a hand out to stop Curt from opening the door to the conference room, turned her hand and grabbed his shirt, then shifted them both to Ryan’s office. ‘You rang?’ she said, giving a less-than-convincing impression of Lurch. ‘I just wanted to warn you,’ Ryan said as […]
Ryan caught the girl before she hit the ground – a scan revealed that she was simply asleep. He could understand her exhaustion, and he knew that coming back to life was very taxing on a body, he’d had it described to him before. That, combined with the emotional stress, was obviously too much for […]