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A Gift for Cross

by Tower Curator — Doctor Phillip Cross stepped away from the terminal screen with a sad shake of his head. They were getting nowhere. The small fog-emitting machine demonstrated exactly one anomalous effect and it was nowhere near the level of proper artifacts. The only unusual property of the fog machine was that it didn’t need to be refilled or charged. It could run perpetually and indefinitely—or at least for seven days, the longest they had tried thus far—and would emit the same level of white clouds of fog, never…
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A Flight to Catch

by Tower Curator — “She woke up?” Dyna said, slumping in the seat in front of Beatrice’s control panel. “Ruby’s okay?” That gave her some hope for Id. “I intercepted a call from Ruby’s phone to the Carroll Institute. Would you like to speak with her?” Dyna’s eyes flicked up to the clock displayed on the screen above Beatrice’s waveform. After Dyna had spent the last hour trying and failing to make an exit from Beatrice’s core straight to Puerto Rico, Beatrice had worked her magic and chartered a…
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A Day Off

by Tower Curator — “Alright, Miss Graves. You may remove the apparatus.” Dyna straightened her back, gripping the handles built into the armrest of the chair to help pull herself forward. She reached up, undid a small buckle set under her chin, and slowly lifted a complex series of interlocking metal plates off her head. Cables and wires ran up into the ceiling. Most were for data transfer, but a few were connected to winches and counterbalance weights, causing the helmet to practically levitate away from her with…
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A Gift for Cross

A Flight to Catch

A Day Off