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Chapter 42 – Back to the Surface Solonn trembled in midair for a moment. Then he sank to the floor. “I’ve… I’ve been here,” he hissed, his eyes wide, their light flickering wildly. “Wh-what? When?” Evane asked. Solonn couldn’t answer. Thinking back to it got him all but stuck in the memory...

Chapter 41 – Beyond the Glass The human, or whatever he was, stooped to pick up the ball, minimizing it and tucking it away into one of his pockets. He swept a gaze over the dumbfounded crowd that shared the red-lit space with him, looking fairly nonplussed himself. “Okay,” he said, sounding...

Chapter 40 – Lightless Flames Solonn never did get to finish his story about the night before. Not when an uproar from a not-too-distant part of town seized his attention, as well as that of everyone else around him. “Oh, no you don’t…” Grosh snarled before charging toward the source of all...

Chapter 39 – Come to Collect In an alleyway that lay largely untouched by the midday sun, a cardboard box hopped and rattled about as if under its own power. Rustling sounds could be heard from within, had there been an audience. But no one was around to watch the box dance. Just as well, as...

Chapter advisory: Contains blood and gore. _____ Chapter 38 – The Nexus of the Crisis When the time came, the five glalie and the claydol filed in, forming a near-circle around DeLeo where he sat waiting for them in his chair. Said chair had been moved forward a bit to allow them to nearly...

Chapter 37 – Easy Come, Easy Go Training for the job was remarkably light: just a tour of the place, really, with restricted areas pointed out so the new security staff would know where to keep the public from going. Keeping them from entering about half of these areas were voice-activated...

Chapter 36 – What Was Lost It wasn’t the first time Solonn had been in Convergence in recent memory, but it felt like it all the same. Possibly because, for the first time in years, he was out in the open, looking upon its streets and landmarks directly rather than through a window...

Chapter 35 – Remnants From out of the nothingness, a gentle pulsing came, nothing at all like the panicked hammering of his heart before everything had gone black. A couple of beats later, Solonn realized that the sensation was coming from somewhere outside him, not within. He subsequently...

OldschoolJohto: Alas, glalie and wobbuffet aren't in compatible egg groups, which is a shame because mirror coat and destiny bond seem befitting for glalie somehow. (Also splash, because funny.) Ultimately, I think Solonn's name just the first one Azvida happened to genuinely like the sound of...

Chapter 34 – Behind Enemy Lines “So. This is it, huh.” “So it is,” Solonn said, watching the racetrack not far below. Already pokémon were gathering there. Soon he would join them. The past few days had flown by, but they’d been incredibly busy. With the aid of the defectors, the force now...

Chapter 33 – Safe The fugitives and their new allies all reappeared under a night sky, but there was a degree of harsh, artificial light shining upon them from nearby. Solonn initially winced, but soon he’d adjusted enough to take in his new surroundings… insofar as he could. He was...

Chapter 32 – Allies Crash. A solid body was smashed against a stone wall. One of its horns snapped clean off, falling to the floor and rolling a short distance away. Ice cracked audibly, bits of it flying everywhere. With the impact still ringing faintly in Solonn’s bones, he withdrew his...

Chapter 31 – Wisteria “Zdir…” Pale eyes turned Solonn’s way, and he thought he detected a hint of weariness about them as though their owner were dealing with a tiresome child. “Zdir… what if they hadn’t been Sinaji?” No response, or at least none spoken. Her expression became harder to...

Raggy: The mirror's defective, I think. I don't remember having blue eyes and horns. Something has Happened to Oth. Well, okay, numerous things have, but I mean specifically with regards to the teleportation. They used to do it just fine. What's changed that? We might find out later. Which is...

Raggy: Autocorrect needs to leave that second "n" alone because removing it changes the pronunciation! Any Virc name ending in a double consonant has the accent on the last syllable. However! Some names without a double consonant at the end (e.g. Ronal) have the accent on the last syllable, as...

Chapter 30 – Take Care Solonn opened his eyes. It seemed he’d been right about being unable to sleep for the time being. Sighing in resignation, he sat up yet again. Soon after, he took to looking in a different direction every so often, figuring it couldn’t hurt to have an extra pair of...

Chapter 29 – To Return If the sight before the party hadn’t already stopped them in their figurative tracks, the sound that came with it—a long and incredibly loud roar, six powerful voices calling out in unison—certainly would have. The snorunt and glalie and the single claydol in their...

Chapter 28 – Strangers The golden light lingered yet again, for longer this time, but not quite as steadily. Here and there, it tried to fade out like it always did when its passengers had reached their destination, only to pulse right back to full intensity before it could get more than a...

Chapter 27 – The Search Solonn, Zdir, and Oth appeared in a chamber a short distance from the Zir-Arda residence. It was as close as Oth could get them, now that there were a few others in tow. The only other option was to make more than one trip, and Oth had been advised against teleporting...

Chapter 26 – Mordial “Just as they have moved on beyond our world, so must we move on within it. Now go, and may the gods give you strength.” At the Soul Guild leader’s dismissal, the crowd gathered in the burial chamber stirred and began to disperse. Some of them were more reluctant than...