He was here now.

Fear wrapped cold hands around my arms and slid them up to caress the back of my neck with light fingers. Not quite coinciding with his arrival, almost as an after thought, a bolt of lightning silently struck the ground where he stood, i…

Eric strode out the front door, determined to put this whole messy business behind him. Thomas wasn't about to make that easy.

"What the hell was that for?!" Thomas yelled.

Eric stopped, turning on Thomas with a suddenness that gave the movement more …

She looks at the clock. "Is that the time, already?"

I see what she means. "4:58." I turn to her. "So, I guess we need to find dinner. Do you know any Korean?"

"I know 15 languages." She seems quite proud of herself. I don't blame her. "It seems I'm not…

He aligned the glyphs in his head in a manner that he thought made sense. He drew them out onto a piece of paper and realized that they didn't.

He had been having trouble deciphering this language for months. Being the head of linguistics for the univers…