Ætherglow #227
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<< Return to Chapter 11 🌑 The new Moon crosses your window. Her bright spiderweb of sleepless...
Ætherglow #228
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🌑 2254-08-28 20:46:40 Aydan > we can’t risk involving you here. if anyone could know how to...
Ætherglow #229
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✴ “Hiii!” The excited motion of your hands sends a ripple of bright pastel color through the...
Ætherglow #230
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✴ “I didn’t know texture could be so...bright,” you say. She lifts up your hand and pulls...
Ætherglow #231
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✴ “Show me the Akikotree,” you say. As she flaps her unoccupied hand excitedly, you feel an...
Ætherglow #232
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✴ “Akiko...” You collapse the remaining illusion of distance between you and pull your avatars...
Ætherglow #233
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✴ “Is everytime I kiss someone gonna be somehow connected to dueling them?” you say. “I hope...
Ætherglow #234
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✴ If you keep trying to evade her forever, she’ll only wear down your defenses over time. You’d...
Ætherglow #235
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✴ You decide this warrants a more direct approach. While her shield is still attenuated to...
Ætherglow #236
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✴ Resisting her control over your senses is impossible with your tenuous grasp of CommTech, you...
Ætherglow #237
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✴ There’s no escape, you realize, so the only strategy left is endurance. You focus everything...
Ætherglow #238
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✴ You extend your focus to expand your liquid barrier to shield both you and Akiko, and also the...
Ætherglow #239
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✴ “Why are you doing this?! What do you want with ÆON?!” you say, stabilizing your shield. “What...
Ætherglow #240
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✴ “Controlling a sentient being against Ær will can’t be justified, even for that!” You take...
Ætherglow #241
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✴ You ascend to join Akiko in battle. A hastily aimed barrage from your laser distracts the...
Ætherglow #242
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✴ “Yet you ally yourself with a cult that welcomes boys!” you say. “The cult is only temporary!...
Ætherglow #243
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✴ You instead redirect your aim and fire down at the wolf--a direct hit while the beast’s focus...
Ætherglow #244
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✴ Pinned down in the sky by drones on all sides, your position is hopeless. You access your...
Ætherglow #245
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✴ You aim your weapon straight down toward your enemy’s head and attack. His shield feels like a...
Ætherglow #246
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✴ ????-??-?? ??:??:?? Ætherglow > let’s retreat, we’ve already gotten a lot of data, Zeta’s...
Ætherglow #247
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🌑 You decide not to disturb it, lying here so peacefully. The ambient sunlight through a crack...
Ætherglow #248
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🌑 Exhausted, you take its offer and lie down with it. “Hey Zeta, you still awake?” “Yeah...”...