Tag: Pryvani Tarsuss

Chapter Three: The Dark and Desolate Valley Titan: Contact by D.X. Machina

“Ill news is wing’d with fate, and flies apace.” –John Dryden, “Threnodia Augustalis” Aertimus Bass simply stared at the viewscreen. There was nothing else he could do. The report from Titan Station was not itself a disaster. Disasters were far less destructive. No, the report Centurium Oden gave was a gorram black hole of awful, …

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Chapter One: This Little Light Titan: Contact by D.X. Machina

“In the starry realms above/God will mete as we may measure.” –Friedrich Schiller, “An die Freude” Shang Xiao Xú Mùlán sat up, icy gel sliding off her body with a sickening thwuck, which was soon replaced by the even more sickening retching of Xú. “Easy, Ma’am,” the quiet Australian doctor said. “Just lie back. You’re …

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Chapter Ten: Making an Offer Titan: Pandemic by JohnnyScribe

“I’m really worried about him, Brinn.” Pryvani spoke to the image of the red haired veterinarian on the screen in front of her. “I wasn’t planning on telling him the truth until he’d recovered, but it just slipped out.” “Pryvani…” Brinn began but was cut off. “…And now he barely eats. He won’t talk to …

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Chapter Three: Zhan’s Story Titan: Pandemic by JohnnyScribe

The machines around her hummed softly as Pryvani gazed down at the prone figure laying underneath the massive diagnostic device in her medical lab. The screens around her continued to report what was no doubt useful information on the frail little human’s condition, but the fact of the matter was Pryvani didn’t really understand the …

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