Ten thousand mortal lifetimes ago, he had been but an individual warrior, toiling under the auspices of Heaven, striving to honor ancestors and gods alike as war raged across his homeland. Many others fell to his blade and skill. He had trained to the peak of his strength and won some minor accolades from the commanders of his people...
2021-11-30 13:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostApril 16th
Danny was up in his office, interviewing the first of the two people Brent had suggested. Probably just a formality considering the source, but Danny was in charge of actually knowing them all. I’d gotten a look at the two possible new hires and they really did both strike me as similar to all the people we’d seen at Fort Le...
2021-11-29 00:08:27 +0000 UTC View PostApril 15th
Overnight, the blackberry canes had bloomed out of the root system, curling three feet up the makeshift trellis we’d created out of PVC yesterday. Green berries peeked around leaves, some already hinting at darker color. The lower vines that had already existed yesterday held berries ripe and ready.
“Seriously, can I g...
2021-11-26 03:42:07 +0000 UTC View PostWhile the blackberry bush was unassuming in that it looked like any other berry plant, it had an almost four foot diameter root system that had lots of little shoots broken off, likely where it’d already been eaten. The still large remainder of the bush with berries on it was still fairly impressive on it’s own.
“Planting it...
2021-11-24 03:46:47 +0000 UTC View PostIt was back in Rolla, back in the Dantian Seeker offices, as I helped carry the several hundred tightly packed MREs in shipping boxes, that Ash asked the question I was trying to figure out how to phrase.
“Are we just supposed to live off MREs and pray everything else is taken care of before they run out?” He dropped the box he was hol...
2021-11-22 20:10:45 +0000 UTC View PostApril 4th
Fort Leonard Wood was like small town of its own, apparently built to solely support the activities of itself. I hadn’t come with the original group of people Brent had set up to get CT scans, so this was my first time dealing with getting onto a base.
Watching out the rain slick window from the visitor’s center, ...
2021-11-21 04:25:07 +0000 UTC View PostI waved to the others as they started running towards me, trying to get my thoughts in order. That glimmer faded as I calmed, excess energy no longer tracing through me and it.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a flip from a handstand go thirty feet long and nearly to the ceiling before.” Melissa looked at me with a little disbelief. ...
2021-11-18 23:16:09 +0000 UTC View PostApril 3rd
“Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday dear Nicole. Happy Birthday to you.”
Really, I was touched as everyone finished singing to me. The Seeker office was closed as we all gathered in the conference room for what I thought was a meeting, only for Karen to spring an honest to god strawberry ...
2021-11-18 01:54:52 +0000 UTC View Post
White is undersea veins, creating steam and dangerous waters until cooled. Red is above-sea rifts. Some locations where they meet the sea may create inlets miles deep. At this resolution, the two-pixel wide veins would be about 20 miles across, so actual size would be slightly smaller.
Image courtesy of 2021-11-17 03:36:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I tapped nervously at the desk in my office, trying to figure out what I should be doing with myself while I waited. It really wasn’t much of an office, just a full-sized desk and a couple of chairs. I didn’t have any degrees to hang from the wall or additional research papers to show off. I did at least have a full computer, which had its a...
2021-11-16 22:24:33 +0000 UTC View PostMarch 31st
For three days, the Earth heaved and bled magma onto the surface. Three days of absolute terror and fear the world was falling apart without any control. Activities that should have happened on a geological timescale happened instead in a geological blink. Lakes of lava flowing up from the interior of the earth that seemed to ha...
2021-11-16 02:23:35 +0000 UTC View Post