Eidolon

Night Cap The penthouse was a slice of silence, broken only by the soft, rhythmic clink of crystal against granite. The vast windows framed the city in its nocturnal glory, a sprawling, feverish ocean of…

At the Gym Rei’s favorite training was her old martial arts routines Aoto had drilled into her. They reminded her of a simpler time and a sense of powerful autonomy. The air in the gym’s…

A New Environment The first weeks settled into a different rhythm, a life partitioned as neatly as her Kuroda schedule. Rei’s days were a blur of controlled glamour and stolen hiatuses. Under the bright lights…

The artificial sunset in Vetro e Vite had faded to a deep, velvety twilight, the bioluminescent grapes overhead providing a soft, romantic glow as they made their way out. Takumi paused at the maître d’s…

Vetro e Vite The Italian restaurant Vetro e Vite was a masterpiece of controlled nostalgia. From the outside, it was an unassuming door in the chrome-and-neon cliff-face of the section of Aurora Cliffs bordering the…