Literature

Thin slivers of light seeping through the crumbling roof only enforced to make the near-endless rooms and chambers feel abandoned, dusty and gray. Still, in one way, Raze admired the overgrown painted walls of the expanding cave and the small paintings below at his feet although faded. They almost looked lifelike. Like images taken from someone's eye, someone's mind, and thoughtfully put down on thin cold plates mounted on hollow rocks and metal railings. There are various such pain...

Rime gazed at her reflection, distorted as it was in the fractured, algae-covered unmelting ice of the horrid place that she and her kin had been stuck in since before she had hatched. Her hide was pale, she knew that much, with even lighter splotches over her back and tail, and bold dark lines on her neck and throat. It gave an only slightly clearer indication of her appearance than the distorted reflection that the ice gave her in the cold place. Her gaze focu...

Even though Ruth has no problems hunting at night, she often finds it easier, there are several reasons why she rarely does ever hunt at night. Well, one, everything is asleep so it's hard to spot something lurking in the darkness when they don’t move! For all she knows, that pinecone hanging from a tree could be a squirrel! Or a bird! And two, it’s loud! If she thought the daytime animals' noises were loud, goodness, it’s nowhere near as loud as the nighttime bugs and ani...

The conscious trio froze briefly after Tobias spoke, then a low growl accompanied by the rattling of quills rasped through the air as Rime prepared herself for an attack by unseen opponents. Hazard readied himself as well, shifting to stand near Click to defend him, if need be.   “What do you mean, we’re ‘not alone’?” the doctor dacen asked as he stepped up beside Tobias. He peered upwards towards wh...

Amethyst eyes peered over the edge of the second floor of the Morpheus facility’s foyer, watching as yet another stranger strode across the empty entrance and towards the door. It was mostly just that now - small groups or individuals who had stayed behind for one reason or another that were now interested enough about the islands and the land outside the lab that their curiosity got the better of them, and they set out to explore. Some of them were so thin an...

  Zone C was a darker place. Not just in terms of light, but in terms of atmosphere. The life and light of the greenhouses did not reach down here. This was a place of containment, of questions that had long gone unanswered despite numerous trials and errors. There was great pain here. All of the inhabitants of the Morpheus facility had suffered, but it was the inhabitants of Zone C that remembered....

It felt as though he was descending into an abyss. The red flash of an emergency light was Tobias’ only companion for a time, and the more stairs that he descended, the weaker its light became. New smells came up the stairway, which heralded an entirely new stretch of the facility with new memories. His path took him there. Rust and metal smelled the strongest in the stairway, but beyond that, earth. Moist soil that was the stuff of envy to the pitiful pots that he’d passed b...

It was eerily silent in the Morpheus facility, now that most everyone had fled. Greeted the light that spilled into the entryway when the great doors had finally opened. A few still remained. Little scavengers that wanted to pick over those that hadn’t been so lucky as to make it out alive, either trampled by their fellows in their frantic attempts to flee or purposefully slain by those that they had once been forced to share a space with. Something...about the entrance prickled at the back...