Adam blinks _Online_ with the zesty taste of blood orange sizzling on his tongue. Almost blood, but sweeter. The air is charged with electricity.

The ever changing landscape of the Astral Plane has shifted to a cemetery. The names on each stone flicker through hundreds of different titles.

People he knows; Owen, Sage, Darla, Jax. People he doesn't know. Faceless strangers he's responsible for, l...

"Seriously Charlie, you've gotta' give it a rest." Hank's voice drifts through my open mind, the sound of it grating against the stillness of Watching, "She'll be fine."

She'll be fine. _Fine_. Never great, or better, or happy. No, just _fine_. My body boils with anger and drips with exhaustion so suddenly I can't concentrate.

I pull away from my Thread with Erika, mourning the loss of her _gent...

Rae thumps a white knuckled fist against her chest, trying to knock her heartbeat into rhythm again - it's going too fast.

Her pine-green eyes are squeezed shut, purple and green spots splashing in the black. Sweat coats her skin, freckles glistening in the low light. What if she doesn't Pressent like Finn? Who nearly burnt the whole stage down with a Blue Flame.

Rae goes to tug at her wild red ...

"So, you'd be the Thor to my Jane."

"I have no idea what you speak of," Agatha chugs down half a glass of wine, and Bruce is half expecting her to throw it to the floor and shout 'another!', but she just stares at him instead, "You are strange."

"I'm strange?" He laughs, loud enough that the couple a few tables over send him a dirty look, "That's good. I like strange."

Agatha shakes her head, ...

My breath punches out of my chest to the rhythm of the song blaring in my left ear. I wince at the razor sharp sound of an electric guitar solo.

Either Mötley Crüe or Led Zepplin - I hate both.

"Seriously Ethan, quit playing this junk when I'm working."

I press my back against the concrete wall across the yard from the main entrance. The chill of the wall quickly seeps through my wet bodysuit....

**Sweet morning dew clings,**

**Sweet Morning birds sing,**

**The sky is alight,**

**Melting away the silent night...**

**Stark grey skies,**

**The seagull cries,**

**Waves crashing down,**

**The sun begins his journey to the ground...**

**The Serene owl calls,**

**Tranquil Night falls.**

**The Curtain of stars is drawn,**

**The deepest dark before dawn.**

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**Sometimes I can't believe m...

_"Light claws at the dark,_

_Pericing the black veil,_

_Color ignites a spark,_

_Clinging darkness soon will fail..."_

I watch the slow sunrise,

Reading bad poetry from 1875.

Smoking my rooftop cigarettes,

Trying so hard to forget...

All the pretty things you did,

How I acted like a stupid kid.

Fell in love too fast, too deep,

Should've known better,

You were never mine to keep...

But now Prett...

A God falls deeply in love with a mortal....

You're character did a very, very bad thing (not murder, too easy)... yet they aren't the villain. Does the guilt eat them alive? Does the shame nearly kill them? ...

Is this what Stevie Wonder sees? Just an endless chasm dripping wet with void... Now I'm even more impressed about 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered'

Jacob's cute smiling face was the last thing I saw before the power went out. Troy's- _frankly embarrassing_- screech was the first thing I heard. My baby brother hit a note only the dogs can hear.

The air feels sharper, like cool glass against my skin. T...