Chapter 1: Ink
San Francisco, November 2012.
Kyran stands at the center of a modern art gallery in the heart of a slumbering city, convinced he's all alone.
The onyx-colored panther glares into the void of a solid black canvas, his...
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Siberia, December 1985.
Thaddeus Axton roars into the frigid blindness of a desolate tundra, only to have his own agony echo back to him. Through time lost trudging through the barren freeze, most sensation abandons him until only his racing...
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London, November 2013. Two years before the end of everything.
Kamala conceals her nose in the collar of a sleek pink trench-coat as she treads warily under the cover of dense London fog. She's been away from the manor for nearly a year...
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Dallas, 2005. Ten years before the end of everything.
Marina Fletcher hovers the Cepheus over a seemingly infinite patch of dark blue countryside, the tall grass rippling from the storm of the engines like waves in a shimmering...
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Flagstaff, six days earlier.
Aarden stands in the solace of a soundless forest of slender ponderosa pines. A gentle breeze brushes his bushy coat of fur, carrying the fragrant scent of unfamiliar flowers to his sensitive nose. Illusion dances...
Lion, Panther, Rabbit, Red Panda, Superheroes, Supernatural, Wolf
Monument Valley, November 2011.
Aarden doesn't pay much attention to a word of Elio Xavier's lecture on the small field of purple wildflowers reaching toward the painted desert sky between colossal sandstone buttes.
"They thrive despite their...
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Axton Manor, August 2015.
It's late into a stormy summer night when Indigo and Quinn meet each other at the landing of the wide marble staircase from opposite ends of dark, endless hallways.
"I saw someone walking up the driveway from my...
Novel, Superheroes
Axton Manor, August 2015.
One month after waking from the nightmares of London and into another time altogether, Phoenix steps into the scorching summer air on the stunning sundown of his twenty-fifth birthday with one goal in mind, destroying the...
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Zephyr Ziegler howls into the darkness as his body tumbles down the steep hill in the California chaparral. Dried grass and sharp branches graze his skin and cling to his dark fur on his fall down as Kyran, Kamala, Phoenix and Indigo follow after him,...
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Smoke fills Ziegler's lungs. He groans, having survived yet another impossibility. Recalling the rubble of London, he roars with pain as his world is filled with rain and fire. He pulls his body through the flooded garden until he's facing Thaddeus...
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Axton Manor, September 2015.
Indigo parries an attack from Kyran, jabbing their saber into inky smoke as they become reacquainted with the view from behind the metal mesh of their old fencing mask.
"I can't touché if you keep cheating!"...
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London, July 2015.
Kamala conceals her bright eyes behind dark pink sunglasses as she treads cautiously under the cover of a crowded Central London, leading Phoenix and Aarden to Ziegler's lab from pained memories until they're lost in the twists...
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