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"Who dares dream of me?!"
The voice dropped to a dangerously low register as the red-haired man spoke. His crimson eyes locked onto Jessica's location with terrifying precision.
Jessica felt his gaze like a physical weight. She knew there was nowhere to run. Could she even move if she tried...
Jessica discovered that upon awakening, even before the cores formed, each individual possessed a core world, or rather, a housing place where the cores resided. The core world was the metaphysical manifestation of one's soul, which upon manifesting, rooted itself inside the user. It created a...
"Oh... How the flames have fallen." Jessica lamented her current predicament in a quiet, mournful whisper. She was being carried, draped over the vile being's shoulder like a sack of particularly useless potatoes.
"If you had stayed still and come calmly with me without making a fuss, none of...
Jessica walked out of the workshop building and moved to the side of the entrance, positioning herself so she wouldn't block anyone who wanted to enter or exit. She prepared to simply stand there, lost in thought, when her eyes caught sight of a bench a few inches past the building's corner...
Violet's husband smiled brightly as he saw the two people enter his office. He placed his reading glasses and the book he'd been reading down carefully and stood, crossing the room with arms wide. He enveloped his wife in a warm hug, kissing the top of her head with genuine affection.
"My one...
Walking out from a room, was a figure, a young girl, seventeen years of age, with blood-red hair and molten gold eyes that currently appeared dull and swollen. She wore a sleeveless white shirt and black jeans, though the outfit did little to hide the damage beneath.
Jessica walked. No—Jessica...
Threadmarks: Chapter 15: Get Away From Me! You Vile Being!!
"WHAT THE FLAMING HELL JUST HAPPENED?!"
Jessica's voice echoed in the suddenly cozy room, high and incredulous. She stared blankly at her surroundings, a deep frown etched on her face as she tried, and failed to process the last few minutes.
Her eyes darted around the room again, checking...
Threadmarks: Chapter 14: An Unexpected Development
'It seems I've been caught.'
The thought arrived with surprising calm, like a drop of water in an ocean. Jessica's helpless maiden act crumbled like ash, there was simply no point in continuing it. This woman, whoever she was, wasn't buying a single word she was selling.
Jessica met the...
Threadmarks: Chapter 13: It Seems I've Been Caught
Darkness.
That was all that greeted Jessica as her consciousness slowly stabilized. Not the threatening dark of a monster's lair, not the oppressive dark of a sealed chamber. Just… emptiness. Familiar emptiness. The same darkness she had felt when she died, before the truck, before the void...
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'You sly old man.'
The thought was warm, amused, utterly without rancor. Jessica floated in the afterglow of her level-up cascade, her mental voice carrying a smile.
'You told me...
'Shit! Don't tell me the path has a timer?'
The thought barely had time to form before the truth of it became devastatingly clear. Behind her, the stone path was dissolving, melting back into the lava from which it had risen as if it had never existed. The process was silent and inexorable, a...