Epsilon Twilight

Addendum: Records

Lithorica

Agatecraft is a very curious power system, and I dare to say that it might have never been born if it weren’t for the severe peculiarities of its birth location. Tultet is not only a world orbiting a black hole – which already presents its own quirks – but the planet also has a peculiar chemical distribution that favors e...

60. What We Deserve

Christie would love to say that she was a composed girl, that she excelled in etiquette and that she never lost her cool. Yet, as Agatha meekly pressed her lips against hers, all those preconceptions about herself shattered, and many other things started to make sense.

She had felt it before, the blonde’s radiance. But now she realized t...

59. Set Me Ablaze

René Dago didn’t know what to think. He had seen a lot of stuff in his life, especially the fucked-up kind in the two wars he had unfortunately lived through, and yet he didn’t know what to make out of this situation.

Before him lay two unconscious girls who were hugging each other in the mud. One reeked of puke and urine. The other r...

58. Bloodstained

As Christie waited in the rain, she couldn’t help but shiver. Not just because of the dampness and the cold, but also because she felt like she had committed a terrible sin.

“Should I have helped her?” She muttered as she embraced her torso and rubbed her arms. Not even under the canopy of the trees did she find refuge from the rain....

57. Death From Above

Agatha moved as fast as she could, as fast as she thought. It was weird to control two agates at the same time, but she had to do it. There wasn’t another way. She shaped the umbrella that she had been controlling on top of Christie so it grabbed the redhead’s torso from the front as her backpack was on her back, then she locked it in place ...

56. Behemoth

Christie was aching. Not because of the long excursion or the rough terrain they had to traverse, but because she wasn’t used to sleeping on anything that wasn’t as soft as clouds. She had honestly believed that those weeks in the carriage had made her able to sleep everywhere, but now she realized how foolish she had been. Adrien’s carria...

55. Military Exercise

Agatha wasn’t sure why, but she trembled on her feet. Not quite a tremble, more like she was walking on hot coals and needed to keep herself on the move lest she burned herself. Surprisingly, that same image could be seen on the rest of the students.

It was early in the morning, the sun had come out less than an hour ago, and they were o...

54. Final Exams

Christie was completely ready for the final exams, yet she couldn’t help but feel nauseatingly nervous. It was an awful feeling, for she knew that she was as prepared as she could, but she didn’t want to fail them, no matter the cost. Which, in and of itself, was a stupid thought as nothing would happen if she failed these exams. Both her de...

53. The Most Painful of Growths

Agatha saw the greatness before her. She had known for a long time now that Christie did everything big, but now she felt it in her bones as she saw that massive wall. Christie was big, far bigger than anything she might ever achieve in her life, and that created a pressure that weighed down on Agatha.

It wasn’t the pangs of jealousy. Th...

52. Masterful Control

Christie was suffering. Oh, how much she hated life. It was an endless struggle of suffering. Truly the greatest of maledictions. Ceaseless and intense.

“Can you stop grunting?” Agatha said as she threw a wet towel at her.

“But it hurts!” Christie protested.

“Yeah, that much is clear. I will not say that I understand ...

51. That is Fine

Agatha and the rest of the class got their scores a week later after the midterms. She held on to the paper, which contained such scores, with a mixture of mounting dread and expectation, as the whole study group gathered in the library.

“I do not want to look at it,” she said as she put so much force on the paper that it was one gestu...

50. Cristos, Headmaster

René Dago rushed to the headmaster’s office the moment he became aware that the man had come back to the academy. The man had been gone for a long time, and he had a handful of things to tell him. Yet as René had reached the highest floor of the taller tower of the Skyscraper Academy, he saw someone before the headmaster’s office.

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49. Outshining the Sun

Christie was tired and the exam had barely started. Perhaps she had been too rough in the handling of her agates. Thankfully, when her agates were free, they expanded slowly enough that it was hard to harm anyone. In any case, if someone were to be hurt, that would be her.

The redhead walked back to the grades with a soft pant once the tea...

48. Midterms

Agatha felt an unstable mixture of confidence and nervousness. She had been dreading the academy for weeks now, yet these last days were able to heal her from her affliction. It hadn’t been instantaneous, but knowing that there were also people struggling filled her with sadistic glee. Yes, she was also in a world of pain, but there were other...

47. Study Group

Christie wanted to do something for Agatha, but she was well aware that she wasn’t the best at problem-solving or the most resourceful person, so she sought the help of someone else to do so. In a way, that was the outright solution to the problem as her roommate really seemed to have difficulties asking for help, so what better way to do but ...

46. Nameless Darkness

Agatha felt as if she were drowning, and she might as well be. The weight of the academy was slowly dragging her down to the depths, step by step, centimeter by centimeter, hair by hair. She knew that the Skyscraper Academy would be hard, even her mother had told her that she would end up crawling and holding on by her teeth, yet… this was not...

45. Listen to the Belly of a Turtle

Christie had forgotten how exhausting lithorica was. She hadn’t been able to perform actual acts of Agatecraft these last weeks, and whilst she had daily exhausted her body through training, she had completely forgotten about the lithic exhaustion for her body only remembered the physical one.

Agatha had told her how using those four com...

44. Weight of Agates

Agatha felt horrible. A knot had formed on her throat, and it kept tightening and tightening, only making her feel more and more nauseous. The rest of her classmates kept trying to get through the targets the teacher had summoned with lapiloquia, but she sat on the ground while embracing her legs, separated from the class.

“Ugh…” She...

43. Military Agatecraft

Christie wasn’t surprised when the whole academy knew about her roommate’s achievements the very next day. Teacher Dago had been correct about his affirmation, and Agatha was, indeed, the youngest person to achieve the Second Stratum. Apparently, it became easier with each subsequent agate, so lithorists usually took a year for their first a...

42. Second Stratum

Agatha was petrified as she looked at her agate. She didn’t know what was happening, yet at the same time, she possessed all the knowledge in the world. There was a single truth, a single answer to the question. No more, no less. She twirled her hand around as she inspected her little sapphire that was pinched between her index finger and thum...

41. Bowels of the Earth

Auri woke up to a splitting headache. His whole body hurt, but that was the least. He actually cared more about the dusty and charged air surrounding him, which made it hard to breathe. If he enjoyed one thing, it was breathing in clean air. Unfortunately, the dark and cold hole didn’t allow him to do so. Though calling the place he was in a �...

40. Tea Party

Christie had to admit that she was extremely nervous. This wasn’t just her first tea party, but her first social gathering in general. Her life had been a protected and reserved one at the Valasela Estate; she hadn’t known or interacted with many people in her life, and that made her anxious. Yes, perhaps she had done so these early weeks in...

39. Turtles Make for Great Backrests

Agatha was drowning in homework. Well, drowning wasn’t the actual word. She didn’t have that much homework; she just sucked at it, so it would be more accurate to say that she was being waterboarded in a puddle.

The girl sighed and arched her back and neck as she leaned forward in the chair she was sitting in, balancing herself precari...

Agatha & Christie Art Bundle

Hello there,

I kind of forgot to post some art that I already had even though we had already reached that part of the story, so whoops?

The Agatha and Christie sketches, and François are by Hiircine.

The Skyscraper Academy uniforms are by glcalde

There are some other artworks in the works, but I do not know when they wil...

38. Third Week of Class

Christie had to admit that the novelty of the academy quickly wore off, and soon she found herself trapped in a routine. She was quickly building up her stamina by training each day in the afternoon once classes were over, but between that and the homework, there wasn’t much in terms of free time currently in her life. The third week of class ...

37. Second Week of Class

The second week of class had been exhausting for Agatha. Not only were the classes no longer introductory and they were already assigning homework, but she also had to deal with Christie. Agatha thought herself quite the brooding person during her cycle, but Christie had shown her that she was rather composed. The tall girl grumbled like no othe...

36. That Innate Wish to End One’s Life

Christie felt sick. She had been feeling sick for the whole day, and the physical education class at first hour certainly didn’t help, but then there was the Agatecraft class. Christina Valasela was an imaginative person, and the girl liked that it helped her immerse herself far deeper in books. Yet, when her teacher talked about people split ...

35. Dangers of Agatecraft

Agatha had enjoyed their weekend outing a lot and had bought a lot of cute attires to dress up her doll… Christe! To dress up Christie. Yes… Unfortunately, the next day, they didn’t spend much time together as her roommate wanted to capitalize on the lost time and train her stamina. As for her, she fulfilled her promise and toyed a bit wit...

34. Stalls and Strolls

Christie felt like she was being lied to, but in all honesty, she wanted to be lied to. It was no lie when she said that she didn’t comprehend the weight of money as she simply hadn’t been taught it, but she was eager to learn. And not just about the money, but what about having friends and going out with them was. Her dearest father loved h...

33. The Weight of Money

Agatha wasn’t fully comfortable wearing her patchwork dress when Christie was wearing a gorgeous red dress herself. Whilst it wasn’t the same color as her hair, the textile still fitted her. Scarlet or burgundy? The seamstress-in-training thought to herself as she looked at her roommate from behind. Her long red mane complemented pe...