Cassia dusted her face with a pink blush. Combing back her long dark hair, her ladies in waiting came in her room to style it. She smiled a little bit in her mirror, thinking of the face that prompted this new desire to look her best at all times. She hadn't seen him since that fateful night when he saved her from Cato, but he had infiltrated her mind, and now she was always on the lookout for him...

Cassia flopped down on her bed next to her textbook and scrolls. Her tutor was making her write yet another history essay as punishment for not doing her schoolwork. She hadn't gotten much onto the page though; the topic bored her to death. She wanted to paint or draw or sculpt something, but her art supplies had been taken as another form of punishment from her parents. She had only written about...

I like to people watch. Ever since retirement it's become a pastime. I sit on the bench at the train station, watching everyone board in the morning.

A woman walks by, clacking as she goes. Black heels, a gold detail. She was walking quite fast in them too. The shoes looked well-polished, but I could tell that they had had their fair share of use. She must try to keep them nice. They seemed unco...

"Come on Pip!"

The dog obediently followed his owner as she stepped out into the fading daylight. It was that odd time in-between the late afternoon and early evening, right before the sun set. The world had a soft glow to it that made Jess smile as the warm air hit her skin.

She had recently discovered that she enjoyed taking walks, especially during this hour. Her dog, Pip followed wherever ...

Mariettes life consisted of two things. Waiting to perform and performing. It was always so dark, waiting, always oh so dark. She would sit, twiddle her thumbs and fidget with her pale pink tutu. Sometimes she would stand up and try to peek outside through the little keyhole in her box. She never saw much though. She liked to listen instead. She stretched, practiced, and waited for her human to co...

"What's so funny hon?" His wife, Elenor called from the bedroom.

"Nothing, baby." James leaned back, reading the paper. There it was, the story that nobody knew wasn't true. Nobody but-

"Hi." She kissed him once, leaving some lipstick on his face. "Now what's so funny?"

He gestured to the television, where the news was playing the latest story.

“James Burnham was shot and killed yesterday, by...

(This is more on my OC's Kieran and Gia, just a bit about their backstory, go read Test Number #8 for their introduction though!)

"That was probably the worst idea you've ever had... how did it work?"

"Hah, told you I know what I'm doing!" Gia punched the vending machine one more time, knocking down a Dr. Pepper.

"Here you go!"

Kieran thanked her, and the two walked around the lab, bored.

...

"Well, I guess it happened again."

"I guess it did."

The room was empty, besides the two people inside, but neither of them seemed concerned. Gia sat down on the floor, while Kieran paced around the room. It was their 8th time being in a room like this in the last month.

Gia spoke, "I wonder where we are this time."

Kieran glanced over, then sat down as well. "I don't know. I am getting a littl...

"I told you to get out of my life 3 years ago!!! OMG nobody ever listens to me!!!"

Bri angrily walked around her room, smacking her head with her hands. The other being in the room, an odd-looking creature with dark blue skin, black eyes, horns, wings, and claws, but other than those features, fairly humanoid. Human looking enough for Bri to get it its face and scream,

"I SWEAR JUST LEAVE ME ALO...

I took the coat out, and went to go hang it up when something fell out of the pocket. I quickly bent and picked it up, before noticing what it was, I was holding. I had just started my shift, after school, and didn't much of it, things fall out of pockets all the time. But then I processed what was in my hand.

"EW EW EW EW AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

Jane ran over,

"What's wrong? What happened? Can yo...