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CHAPTER 346
Life was often stranger than fiction. Cecilia took the stairs of the Spire two at a time, nearly bounding toward Cynthia's office with her phone clutched in her hand, its battery hanging on by a thread. It was tough to charge things when you were homeless. There were plenty of...
A/N: Been a while; I'm kinda burned out so it took a long time to get this over with and I might be a little rusty. Sinnoh's almost over, so fuck it I'll manage to finish it without as large of a break. We ball.
CHAPTER 345
A person could look back on their past and wonder how they'd arrived...
CHAPTER 344
"Oh shit. Did you hear?" Rare were the times these days when Emilia looked shaken to such an extent—at least with me. Wide-eyed, she stared right at me with an iron grip on her phone. "Shit, shit, shit."
I glanced at her for a moment, finding it difficult to rip my attention away...
CHAPTER 343 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Alcohol flowed freely as Amber Stewart's birthday party came to life inside Ronaldo's sprawling penthouse. The living room buzzed with energy, a whirlwind of people and Pokemon moving to the pounding beat of the music. Cassandra, ever the clown, belted out off-key...
A/N: Happy new year! Here's the final part of this interlude
INTERLUDE - CONFIDANTS II
The hum of the world was a song he always heard but never understood. Vibrations threaded through his exoskeleton, a constant rhythm that spoke of prey moving, hiding, breathing. Each tremor was a verse...
INTERLUDE - CONFIDANTS I
"Hey. Got a question for ya."
Denzel blinked, slowly turning away from his laptop. He uncovered one of his ears, pushed his headphones to the side, and peeked at his friend. For her part, Grace hadn't looked up from her own screen at all. Her eyes darted across her...
A/N: Been busy with exams and papers, but I'm back.
CHAPTER 342
Like thunder, adrenaline coursed through my veins, each drop a cold reminder that the good times could only last so long before the other shoe dropped and happiness turned out only to be a drop in a bucket. Shortly after sitting...
INTERLUDE - SPECTATORS
Anxiety coiled around Temperance's neck like an Ekans looking to asphyxiate her. She did not show it—not with so many people around, including her friends. She was perfection, and perfection could not be outwardly nervous. The coordinator was surprised at how many eyes...
CHAPTER 341
Group 13
Jude Wilkinson
Ayaan Warsame
Zuri Mwangi
Josh Erick
Ammar Hamili
Aubri Schneider
Cecilia Obel
…
For the last ten minutes, Cecilia had been staring at her group from top to bottom on her phone. She watched the face of each contestant she would have to fight; some were...
CHAPTER 340
Excitement from the opening ceremony had thrown the entire island into a frenzy of enthusiasm and spending. You couldn't go five seconds without seeing someone carrying something new they'd bought, either for their Pokemon, friends, family, or themselves. I was, as it turned out...
CHAPTER 339
It was the morning of the opening ceremony.
As such, it would be easier to find a needle in a haystack than figure out where in the world my friends were. We'd sent each other texts with plans to meet on this exact plaza, but it was so full that I couldn't even rely on the old...
A/N: Here it is. Sinnoh's final arc, and a new one begins slowly, as always.
CHAPTER 338
"Do you have your toothbrush?"
I paused for a second, eyes meeting Maylene's, and she smirked at me while leaning against the doorframe of my apartment. She was lucky her smugness was always accompanied...
INTERLUDE - JOB APPLICATION
Another pellet arced through the air, and Wimpod shot forward, her legs flailing with anticipation as her mouth opened wide. Her legs wriggled in the air, her mouth clamped down, and she skittled away with the food to eat it hidden away from them behind the...
CHAPTER 337 - TURNING THE TANKER
Cecilia's ears were still hurting from her flight on Lehmhart by the time she made it to Josephine's mansion, a reminder that she ought to buy ear protection sometime soon after this. Emilia was hunkering down at Pauline's mother's Hearthome property, which was...
CHAPTER 336
There was something uniquely unbearable about awkward elevator rides, the kind of discomfort you couldn't experience anywhere else. Maybe it was the cramped space or the endlessly looping, terrible music. Or the way I kept glancing to the side at Melody because of the tight confined...
CHAPTER 335 - GENESIS
My fingers tingled as I sat on the Eterna City tram that would bring me to Gardenia's Gym. The most direct line still wasn't repaired from the bombs, so I'd needed to take a large detour. Flying there would have been quicker, but the long tram ride would give me what I...
CHAPTER 334
"It's been so surprising to see you at all these public events—let alone an interview with SNN! People have long struggled to squint past your… elusiveness, but it really feels like you've begun to step into Craig Goodwill's shoes recently. What do you have to say to that?"
I...
CHAPTER 333
Cecilia got Temperance's number the moment she'd been allowed to leave the party. Her pursuer had needed to run and nearly beg for it, hissing in hushed whispers to not humiliate herself in public that she'd dye her hair blonde and not silver so she could get Cecilia to bite. The...
CHAPTER 332
"Graces, how long do I gotta be your mule for?" Jess' whines behind me were thankfully somewhat masked by the constant hum of cars around us. "Couldn't you just look at these in the library?"
"Libraries make me uncomfortable," I deadpanned ahead of her. A flicker of heat prickled...
Threadmarks: Interlude - The Other Side of the Ocean
INTERLUDE - THE OTHER SIDE OF THE OCEAN
Hilbert Cassidy loved people, but love itself was a vice, dragging behind it a thousand tangled problems that came with it. He knew it, had always known it, and would always know it, and yet he pressed on, convinced that the world was worth the struggle...