Eidolon

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…

The day unfolded in a blur of corpo gloss. Boardrooms filled with men in black suits who spoke in neat phrases about market share and user capacities, but whose eyes inevitably strayed to Rei whenever…

The penthouse windows framed the afterglow of morning dissolving into the endless hum of traffic far below. Rei sat on the sofa, her bare legs curled beneath the oversized black trousers she’d stolen from the…